New York Yankees? Goodbye and good night. Los Angeles Angels? See you next season ... with or without Shohei Ohtani. San Diego Padres? We're crossing you off the list; too many teams to climb over. That still leaves 17 teams in the postseason picture -- 18 if you want to count the Cleveland Guardians, but until they get to .500 we're going to ignore them.
So, here's what each of those 17 teams needs to do between now and October.
National League
