Sure, it’s not even the middle of August.
Weird things can happen in baseball, whether it’s a team with a large lead in the division dropping eight of nine games and suddenly seeing a squad behind them catch up (ask New York Mets fans about that), or a franchise you thought was out of it making a run (hello, 2023 Chicago Cubs!).
But taking a snapshot of the standings now will tell you a lot about who’s a contender or who’s a pretender. And we’re here to focus on the latter — if these five teams don’t do something in a hurry, it’s no postseason for them: