Every baseball season goes like this: It’s early, you blink and you’re 110 games in. So here we are.
With the trade deadline solidifying which teams are gunning for October 2025 baseball and which are counting their losses, the National League playoff picture has started to come into clearer focus. It’s also a complete mess.
Here’s what we’re talking about, with three things to watch in the NL standings the final almost-two months of the season:
We have our six. (Unless …)
Six-leg parlays are almost always irresponsible, so no need to take this that far, but here’s a statement whose future falsification would come as a shock: There will be no National League postseason team from anywhere but New York, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Chicago, Los Angeles or San Diego.