The 12-team playoff field has been set. There were some surprises (the Mets collapse allowing the upstart Cincinnati Reds to enter the playoffs for the first time in a full season since 2013, the Brewers finishing with baseball’s best record, and the Tigers losing the AL Central to the Guardians to name a few), but on Tuesday, baseball’s maddening tournament begins.
The playoffs are a crapshoot. Oftentimes it is the team that is hottest, not the most talented, that ends up winning the Fall Classic. Other times, the Dodgers outspend everyone and bludgeon you to death with their talent.
Regardless of how things play out over the next few weeks, below
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