Fantasy Baseball Forecaster for Week 25: Playoffs Week 3, Sept. 15-21

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Fantasy baseball's Week 25, the penultimate week of the MLB season, represents the archetypal of two-week title matchups successful ESPN modular head-to-head leagues. It's the busier of the 2 weeks, arsenic Week 25 has 96 full games and 12 teams scheduled to play 7 times. Week 26, by comparison, has conscionable 90 full games with each 30 teams scheduled for precisely six games apiece. This is the week successful which to purpose for a large caput commencement successful your matchups, particularly considering that some playoff-bound and mathematically eliminated MLB teams often remainder their regulars during the season's last week.

Speaking of clinching playoff spots, the Milwaukee Brewers and Philadelphia Phillies person already secured places successful the October tournament. Expect to spot much playoff spots, home-field advantages for aboriginal bid and possibly adjacent circumstantial seeds clinched passim the week. The Detroit Tigers and Toronto Blue Jays are besides successful presumption to unafraid playoff spots. In the lawsuit of the Phillies, they could clinch the National League East arsenic aboriginal arsenic Monday. The Tigers could fastener up the American League Central title, arsenic the Brewers could the National League Central, earlier Week 25 concludes. That's important successful that teams often see resting regulars the time aft a clinching scenario.

A brace of doubleheaders substance the greater fig of seven-game weeks. The Atlanta Braves and Washington Nationals play a Tuesday doubleheader astatine Washington's Nationals Park, with 1 of the games making up for their May 21 postponement, portion the Cleveland Guardians and Minnesota Twins play a Saturday doubleheader astatine Minnesota's Target Field, with 1 of the games making up for their May 20 postponement. All 4 teams joined the seven-game assemblage with the other contest.

The AL West contention volition beryllium nether the microscope during Week 25. The Houston Astros big the Texas Rangers (two games backmost of the Astros successful the standings, and 3 retired of archetypal place) for 3 games from Monday done Wednesday, and the Seattle Mariners (who pb the Astros by 1 game) from Friday done Sunday.

Meanwhile, the Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers, leaders of their respectiv...