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American League:
#1 Los Angeles (West) vs. #4 Boston (Wild Card)
#3 Chicago (Central) vs #2 Tampa Bay (East)
National League:
#2 New York (East) vs. #4 Milwaukee (Wild Card)
#1 Chicago (Central) vs. #3 Arizona or Los Angeles (West)
| Rank | Team | W | L | PCT | Division | 1 | Chicago Cubs | 76 | 48 | .613 | C1 | 2 | New York Mets | 68 | 57 | .544 | E1 | 3T | Arizona | 64 | 60 | .516 | W1 | 3T | Los Angeles Dodgers | 64 | 60 | .516 | W1 | 5 | Milwaukee | 72 | 54 | .571 | C2 | 6 | St. Louis | 70 | 57 | .551 | C3 | 7 | Philadelphia | 66 | 58 | .532 | E2 | 8 | Florida | 64 | 61 | .512 | E3 | 9 | Houston | 63 | 62 | .504 | C4 | 10 | Colorado | 57 | 69 | .452 | W3 | 11T | Pittsburgh | 56 | 69 | .448 | C5 | 11T | Atlanta | 56 | 69 | .448 | E4 | 13 | Cincinnati | 55 | 70 | .44 | C6 | 14 | San Francisco | 53 | 71 | .427 | W4 | 15 | San Diego | 48 | 76 | .387 | W5 | 16 | Washington | 44 | 81 | .352 | E5 |
| Rank | Team | W | L | PCT | Division |
| 1 | Los Angeles Angels | 76 | 47 | .618 | W1 | 2 | Tampa Bay | 76 | 48 | .613 | E1 | 3 | Chicago White Sox | 71 | 53 | .573 | C1 | 4 | Boston | 72 | 53 | .576 | E2 | 5 | Minnesota | 70 | 54 | .565 | C2 | 6 | New York Yankees | 66 | 58 | .532 | E3 | 7 | Toronto | 64 | 60 | .516 | E4 | 8 | Texas | 62 | 64 | .492 | W2 | 9 | Detroit | 61 | 64 | .488 | C3 | 10 | Baltimore | 60 | 64 | .484 | E5 | 11 | Oakland | 57 | 67 | .46 | W3 | 12 | Cleveland | 56 | 67 | .455 | C4 | 13 | Kansas City | 55 | 69 | .444 | C5 | 14 | Seattle | 46 | 78 | .371 | W4 |
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If a player needs a home run for the cycle, the level of the alert varies depending upon the determination of the Cycle Detection Warning System, which is headquartered in Thief River Falls, Minnesota.
Baseball Toaster runs on some experimental software called Fairpole. It's still under development.
For more information, please visit the Fairpole blog, or read the FAQ.
Now I'm confused, but this AP story says that the sale of the Washington Nationals to the Theodore Lerner group got approval from U.S. antitrust authorities.
Of course, I thought baseball was exempt from antitrust laws. So what was the Federal Trade Commission investigating anyway? I thought that baseball enjoyed legal protections that made it possible for Bud Selig to order us all in to indentured servitude or force us to pledge allegiance to the MLB logo every morning.
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