Memorial Day has passed so it’s time to check on the MLB standings.
The rule of thumb in baseball has always been to avoid the standings until after Memorial Day. The sample sizes are no longer small and divisional games are starting to mean more.
Now, things get real. You are free to be optimistic about the first-place San Francisco Giants. You are also free to panic about any team hovering around .500. Since this is around the time the good teams begin to separate from the bad, we took a look at the standings projections from Fangraphs and the PECOTA playoff projections to get an idea of where each team might end up this fall.