MLB Playoffs

Three years ago, the Houston Astros lost 107 games, and the Chicago Cubs lost 101. The Kansas City Royals were finishing their fourth straight 90-loss season, their eighth in nine years. The Pittsburgh Pirates were making North American sports history with their 20th-straight losing season.

There are many intriguing questions surrounding the MLB postseason.

Will the New York Yankees win the Wild Card Game? Is an NL Central team destined to take home the Commissioner's Trophy?

Like everyone predicted back in spring training, the Boston Red Sox transformed back into a baseball powerhouse, the Seattle Mariners ended a 13-year playoff drought and the Washington Nationals decimated everyone in sight during a historically dominant season.

There's no question about it—the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs are the two most dangerous squads in the 2015 MLB wild-card conversation.

As the San Francisco Giants and the Kansas City Royals demonstrated a season ago, wild-card winners can make a lot of noise in October.

The MLB postseason is rapidly approaching, as things will kick off with the AL Wild Card Game on Tuesday, Oct. 6, and the NL Wild Card Game on Wednesday, Oct. 7.

The National League playoff picture is essentially set after the Chicago Cubs clinched a postseason spot Friday night, but the three NL Central contenders are still jostling for position.

With the MLB postseason nearly upon us, many fans are already looking toward the World Series. It's time to take a look into just who could make a play for it.

Are the Dodgers looking like they can take a shot at the World Series? Are the Blue Jays the safest bet for a contender?

NEW YORK — Over in the National League, the Wild Card Game matchup seemed set weeks ago.

Here in the American League, no one wants to acknowledge that any part of it is set yet.

With the MLB postseason around the corner, Bleacher Report brought in a couple of very qualified individuals to give their predictions.

With less than two weeks remaining in the MLB regular season, the playoff picture is coming into focus as teams have few opportunities left to stake their claim to a postseason spot.

The St. Louis Cardinals and Pittsburgh Pirates enter Thursday's slate of games as the only two teams to clinch playoff berths thus far, but there are likely many more to come over the next few days, as some of the divisional races are reaching nearly insurmountable levels.

We are less than two weeks away from the start of the 2015 MLB playoffs, with the AL Wild Card Game set to be played on Oct. 6 and the NL Wild Card Game slated for Oct. 7.

Anything can happen in October—as we've seen time and again—and trying to predict how the postseason will shake out is often an exercise in futility.

After all, how many people can honestly say they picked Kansas City versus San Francisco in a thrilling seven-game World Series last year?