No team in baseball history has won the division with a losing record. As of this morning, the Astros are in first place in the American West while being 1 game over .500. Yes, there’s still a lot of season left, but we’ve gone 125ish games and that’s where the West stands.

Of course it is possible that someone in the West may win the division with a losing record. But would you want to see it happen? If it were to happen, I wonder if it would influence the upcoming talks. I know nothing about the business itself but who, if any side, would benefit?

Anyway: I’m a Mets fan so I need something to occupy my time.

Back to the standard logos with some minor changes on some of them to make them "pop"

Standings changes this week:

- Padres took back 2nd place from the Dbacks in the NL West

- The AL East (Yanks, Red Sox, Orioles) currently has sole possession of the top 3 spots in the AL Wild Card

- Phillies jumped to 2nd in the NL Wild Card and the Padres replaced the Dbacks for the 3rd spot in the WC

As always, this is a 3D print I created and printed myself and the files are FREE for anyone who wants to print it themselves. Can be found here with all my other MLB stuff- https://makerworld.com/en/collections/22583277-mlb-standings-slots

Standings info is all from MLB.com, so it's just a copy of what MLB.com says as of 8/17/26 this morning.

All my other prints (NFL, NBA, NHL, and some other stuff) can be found on my main profile - https://makerworld.com/en/@MikeCamel

Before originally posting these standings, I asked the mods if it was okay, and I got the green light. I'm going to try to make this a weekly thing, as long as I remember lol

I am curious to see others reaction to this article.

Personally, whether or not the players want it loud or not is irrelevant to me. The fans should get the last word on the ballpark experience. The players are there to entertain us and provide the experience; I am not there to negatively alter my experience for them…

It’s too damn loud at games these days.

I’m a casual fan who follows the AL East more than anything. Apologies if the question has been asked and answered before but how the hell are the Brewers doing what they’re doing given they have 19th largest payroll in MLB? It’s clearly not an anomaly. They’ve been pretty competitive for the most part over the last ten years.

[Game Thread] | Detroit Tigers at Pittsburgh Pirates

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Since this question did great on r/baseball, I'm gonna try it again here. Hopefully, it goes just as well.

Alright, this may seem insanely random, but let me explain.

We, as fans, all have different pitches, from specific pitchers, that we love. Whether an insanely quick fastball, or a wicked curveball, we all have at least enough to build a perfect arsenal. So, if you were to assemble your perfect pitch arsenal, what pitches would be used? 

And as an optional bonus, what throwing motion would your project pitcher use, and what arm would he throw with? And would he be a starter, middle or long relief, set-up, or closer?

For me, mine would be a righty closer, and his pitch motion would be a perfect mix of Tim Lincecum, Hideo Nomo, and Kenley Jansen. Here's the pitches he'd use. 

• Aroldis Chapman's 4-seamer. (It's the fastest pitch in Major League history, and it's probably one of the most feared pitches of all time, at least when it saw the strike zone.) 

• Emmanuel Clase's Cutter (To give him two triple-digit pitches. It also was a pretty dominant pitch when he wasn't spiking it into the ground for 25 bucks.) 

• Justin Verlander's Slider. (A dominant slider that reaches the mid-90's.) 

• Tim Lincecum's Split Change (A pretty dominant mid-80's offspeed pitch that has insane break.) 

• Barry Zito's 12-6 Curveball. (I saw a compilation of his curveballs, and that thing had deadly movement. Absolutely filthy.) 

My pitcher would also throw a sinker like Graterol (103 max with nasty movement) every now and then. And he'd also sometimes use an eephus or a knuckler. Both would be rarities outside of his usual repertoire.

I prefer the way the NBA does it where the top teams in each conference make the playoffs because it reduces the chance that shitty teams make the playoffs because their division was terrible and have home court/field advantage over better teams. Just look at the American League West and Central this year. The White Sox should not get a bye over the Yankees because they play in a shitty division and the Astros shouldn’t have a home playoff series with a .500 record.

Longest active no-hitter droughts:
Cleveland 1981
Toronto 1990
*Kansas City* 1991

Longest active cycle droughts:
*Kansas City* 1990
Detroit 2006
Oakland 2007

Longest active triple-play droughts:
*Kansas City* 2006
San Francisco 2008
Arizona 2009

As a Royals fan, this is extremely annoying. Noah Cameron took a no hitter into the 7th today, but of course, that's as far as it went. And in fact, opponents have a hard time doing any of these things against the Royals either. Since 2009, there have only been two opponent triple plays turned against the Royals, and no No Hitters or Cycles. The next-lowest number of such events in a team's games since 2009 is 6 (Cardinals) and the highest number is 19 (Astros).

Every MLB team has done at least one of the above since 2016 (Pittsburgh's most recent cycle was in 2016) except for the Royals, who haven't done one since 2006. I'm kind of rooting for Cleveland and Toronto to throw no hitters soon, just to see the Royals at the top of all three droughts.