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Charles Curtis

MLB playoff picture: How each division is shaking out with 1.5 months to go

The MLB trade deadline is far behind us. And while we’ve seen some teams looking like they could fall out of the playoff race, you just never know in mid-August — a franchise could reel off 10 straight wins and be right in the thick of it again.

So it’s a good time to take a snapshot now that it’s mid-August — the divisional races are FAR from over, and the same goes for the Wild Card, which we’ll include below as we look at the playoff picture. And THAT race has so many teams vying for the three spots in both the National and American Leagues.

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