Our weekly contender rankings lost one more team this week. We’re officially saying goodbye to the Mets after they were swept by the Cardinals and dropped two of three to the Phillies. New York is 5.5 games back in the NL East and seven out in the wild-card standings with 12 games to go. Only three of those games come against a team the Mets are chasing for a playoff spot, in their final series at Atlanta. Time has just about run out in Year 1 of the Steve Cohen era. Thumbs down all around.
That leaves us with 16 teams vying for 10 postseason spots, including two who had the odds stacked against them up until very recently.