Barely every week stays in Main League Baseball’s 2024 common season, and the MLB playoff image is coming into a transparent focus, with 5 groups having clinched playoff berths this week. The New York Yankees, Los Angeles Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies, Cleveland Guardians and Milwaukee Brewers have been the primary 5 groups to safe their playoff spots. 

By means of reminder, MLB now grants 12 playoff berths — a complete of six to the division winners after which three wild-card berths in every league. The highest two division winners in every league as measured by general report are rewarded with first-round byes, which implies they will not should play within the best-of-three Wild Card Collection that capabilities as that first spherical.

The Brewers and the Guardians are the primary groups to clinch their division thus far. Whereas issues may actually change over the closing days of the season, none of baseball’s different 4 division races are all that tight. The opposite division leaders — the Yankees, Phillies, Dodgers and Houston Astros — all sit with leads of at the least three video games.

There figures to be loads of wild-card drama, nonetheless. Within the American League, the surging Detroit Tigers are proper behind the Minnesota Twins within the standings. The Tigers haven’t performed postseason baseball since 2014, matching the Los Angeles Angels for the longest drought in MLB. Within the Nationwide League, the New York Mets and Arizona Diamondbacks are locked in a decent battle for the No. 5 seed. Each the Mets and D-backs are in playoff place, they usually’re attempting to carry off the Atlanta Braves.

Now let’s get you caught up on the place all these races stand proper now as the ultimate weeks of the common season loom. All division and postseason projections referenced within the standings come from SportsLine.

2024 MLB playoff image

If the season ended immediately…
American League
Byes: No. 1 Yankees, No. 2 Guardians
Wild Card Collection: No. 3 Astros vs. No. 6 Twins, No. 4 Orioles vs. No. 5 Royals

Nationwide League
Byes: No. 1 Phillies, No. 2 Dodgers
Wild Card Collection: No. 3 Brewers vs. No. 6 Mets, No. 4 Padres vs. No. 5 D-backs

Who’s clinched?

• The Brewers clinched the NL Central
• The Guardians clinched the AL Central
• The Yankees have clinched an AL playoff spot
• The Dodgers and Phillies have clinched NL playoff spots

MLB magic numbers

(Getting into Saturday, Sept. 21)

• AL East: Yankees — 5
• AL West: Astros — 3
• AL playoff spots: Orioles — 3, Astros — 3, Royals — 7, Twins — 8
• NL East: Phillies — 1
• NL West: Dodgers — 5
• NL playoff spots: Padres — 2, Diamondbacks — 4, Mets — 5, Braves — 7

Notable tiebreakers

(Observe: Two-team MLB tiebreakers are decided by head-to-head report. If groups have the identical head-to-head report, intradivision report is used.)

• The Yankees have clinched the tiebreaker in opposition to the Guardians
• The Guardians have clinched the tiebreaker in opposition to the Orioles
• The Orioles at the moment maintain the tiebreaker in opposition to the Yankees
• The Twins have clinched the tiebreaker in opposition to the Tigers and Royals
• The Phillies have clinched the tiebreaker in opposition to the Dodgers and the Brewers
• The Mets have clinched the tiebreaker in opposition to the D-backs and the Padres
• The D-backs at the moment maintain the tiebreaker in opposition to the Padres
• The Mets at the moment maintain the tiebreaker in opposition to the Braves

American League standings

Nationwide League standings

Clinched division – x
Clinched wild-card – y
Clinched playoff berth – z
Eradicated – e

MLB wild-card standings

2024 World Collection odds

• Dodgers: +340
• Yankees: +450
• Phillies: +450
• Astros: +700
• Orioles: +1000
• Guardians: +1100
• Padres: +1200
• Brewers: +1500
• Diamondbacks: +2000
• Mets: +2200
• Royals: +2800
• Braves: +2800
• Twins: +2800
• Tigers: +6000