Do the D-Backs Make the Playoffs?

[bankybruce]

We are a little over a third of the way in and half the league makes it this year. With this team now sitting at .500 and finally playing real baseball, are they in?

 

[Shaggy]

If they continue hitting, yes. If they go into another slump, no..

 

[BC867]

On the basis of . . . good pitching beats good hitting . . .

And with our top two starters among the worst on the staff
-- Bumgarner's fast ball has lost its zip
-- Robbie Ray can't go more than five innings

And our relievers sub-par

Even if some of our hitters continue their recent practice of
not lifting everything into the air and hitting against the shift
to get on base and stealing bases

I see us just missing the playoffs. But it is such a fine point
that the +/- makes it a guess.

Rather than . . . will we be a playoff team . . . I am more concerned
with . . . will we be worthy of reaching the playoffs . . . and develop
a rotation that will see us improve every season?

 

[AZCB34]

They will benefit from the expanded playoffs... nobody should benefit from that but MLB has decided otherwise.