State of the MLB Good morning baseball Fans! On this 78th anniversary of the first televised Major League Baseball game (Cincinnati Reds vs. Brooklyn Dodgers, August 26th, 1939), allow me, your loyal Sports Columnist, to give the briefest of overviews into the current state of the league. The Los Angeles Dodgers are unquestionably the best team in baseball, with a 91-36 record they have a comfortable 21 game lead in the NL West and an impressive 13.5 game on the second best team in baseball, the Houston Astros. If the Dodgers continue at their current rate, this will the winningest season since the franchise moved to LA from Brooklyn in 1958. While the Dodgers overshadow them in the overall standings, the Astros reign supreme in the American League. The ‘Stros lead the AL West by 13 and have a 5 game buffer over the second best team in the AL: the Greenville Drive’s big brother, the Boston Red Sox. The Sox are the current leaders of the AL East, currently up on that team no one likes from New York by 4. …show more content…
Other division leaders are the Washington Nationals in the NL East, up by 12.5 on the Miami Marlins (a moment of silence for the playoff hopes of my Atlanta Braves…). The Chicago Cubs (Boo Mets, Go Cubbies!) lead by 3 in the NL Central and the Cleveland Indians have the AL Central by 6. Assuming nothing changes with the division leaders, the ugly pinstripes from New York and the Minnesota Twins lead the Wild Card race in the AL while the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies are the favorites in the NL. These races are tight, however, with 6 teams within 3 games of the Twins and 3 teams within 5 games of the