MLB gets what it signed up for with race to the bottom for third NL wild card

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Attendance around MLB is up 9.1%, but the winner of the NL’s third wild card has a chance to be one of the worst playoff teams ever, by run differential.

Welcome to the race to the bottom for the third National League wild card. The finish should be thrilling, if not pretty, and it’s precisely what Major League Baseball signed up for when it expanded the postseason to six teams per league before last season.The San Francisco Giants are a flawed baseball team. That much has been on display for the better part of three months, now, and was only made clearer as they went 1-6 on their past road trip to drop them all the way back to .500.

In fact, the competition has been so underwhelming, that multiple people within the Giants organization suggested that they wouldn’t count out the Padres, who had just taken them to town for three out of four games. There have only been nine teams in MLB history to make the postseason with a negative run differential, and four came during shortened seasons . It’s worth noting that last season, the NL’s third wild card, the Phillies, reached the World Series, and the race on the American League side this year is shaping up to even leave one deserving club home.Attendance leaguewide is up 9.1% from last season, at an average of 28,989 per game, on pace for the largest year-over-year increase since 1992-93.

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