Let's pick a listing of playoff probabilities. Here's one from our colleagues at FiveThirtyEight. Check out that right column. Pretty stark, right?
The numbers aren't significantly different from other leading forecasts and they create a vivid expectation for the playoffs which, incredible as it seems, begin next week. (Seems like spring training just ended.) The expectation I refer to is that we're going to see one of the Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees or Houston Astros win it all. According to the numbers, there is a two-out-of-three chance that's going to happen.