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Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n Barely two weeks remain in the 2025\u00a0MLB regular season. As September rolls along, the Major League Baseball playoff picture is coming into focus. No team has clinched a playoff spot yet, but the MLB-leading Milwaukee Brewers\u00a0and the Philadelphia Phillies are closing in on them. The Brewers and Phillies maintain sizable leads in the NL Central and NL East, respectively, and should clinch playoff spots in the coming days.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Los Angeles Dodgers are the other division leader in the National League as they look to hold off the\u00a0San Diego Padres\u00a0to capture another division crown. The Padres, Chicago Cubs and New York Mets are currently in wild card position in the NL, but the San Francisco Giants and Cincinnati Reds are making September charges to try and catch New York.<\/p>\n There are some tighter races in the American League. The Seattle Mariners and Houston Astros are neck-and-neck as they fight for the AL West title, and there’s a logjam in the AL wild card race behind the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees. The Detroit Tigers and Toronto Blue Jays lead the AL Central and East, respectively.<\/p>\n As a reminder, MLB now grants 12 playoff berths — a total of six to the division winners and then three wild card berths in each league. The top two division winners in each league as measured by overall record are rewarded with first-round byes, which means they won’t have to play in the best-of-three Wild Card Series that functions as that first round. The 2025 MLB postseason<\/span> gets started on Tuesday, Sept. 30.<\/p>\n Now let’s get you caught up on the bracket, standings and more. All division and postseason projections referenced in the standings come from\u00a0SportsLine. <\/p>\n If the season ended today…<\/em> NL byes<\/strong>: No. 1 Brewers and No. 2 Phillies New York Yankees<\/p>\n 82<\/p>\n 65<\/p>\n +2.5<\/p>\n Boston Red Sox<\/p>\n 81<\/p>\n 67<\/p>\n +1.0<\/p>\n Houston Astros<\/p>\n 80<\/p>\n 68<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Texas Rangers<\/p>\n 78<\/p>\n 70<\/p>\n 2.0<\/p>\n Cleveland Guardians<\/p>\n 76<\/p>\n 71<\/p>\n 3.5<\/p>\n Kansas City Royals<\/p>\n 74<\/p>\n 74<\/p>\n 6.0<\/p>\n Chicago Cubs<\/p>\n 84<\/p>\n 63<\/p>\n +8.5<\/p>\n San Diego Padres<\/p>\n 80<\/p>\n 68<\/p>\n +4.0<\/p>\n New York Mets<\/p>\n 76<\/p>\n 72<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n San Francisco Giants<\/p>\n 75<\/p>\n 72<\/p>\n 0.5<\/p>\n Cincinnati Reds<\/p>\n 74<\/p>\n 73<\/p>\n 1.5<\/p>\n Arizona Diamondbacks<\/p>\n 73<\/p>\n 75<\/p>\n 3.0<\/p>\n St. Louis Cardinals<\/p>\n 72<\/p>\n 76<\/p>\n 4.0<\/p>\n (All odds via Caesars\u00a0as of Sept. 13)<\/em><\/p>\n Getty Images Barely two weeks remain in the 2025\u00a0MLB regular season. As September rolls along, the Major League Baseball playoff picture is coming into focus. No team has clinched a playoff spot yet, but the MLB-leading Milwaukee Brewers\u00a0and the Philadelphia Phillies are closing in on them. The Brewers and Phillies maintain sizable leads in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[6703,1190,10862,749,12901,865,8600,750,6272,8718,2187],"class_list":{"0":"post-21026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-astros","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-mariners","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-neckandneck","13":"tag-odds","14":"tag-picture","15":"tag-playoff","16":"tag-projections","17":"tag-standings","18":"tag-west"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} 2025 MLB playoff picture <\/h2>\n
AL byes<\/strong>: No. 1 Blue Jays and No. 2 Tigers
AL Wild Card Series<\/strong>: No. 3 Mariners vs. No. 6 Astros
No. 4 Yankees vs. No. 5 Red Sox<\/p>\n
NL Wild Card Series<\/strong>: No. 3 Dodgers vs. No. 6 Mets
No. 4 Cubs vs. No. 5 Padres<\/p>\n American League standings <\/h2>\n
National League standings <\/h2>\n
MLB wild card standings <\/h2>\n
2025 World Series odds <\/h2>\n
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