Skin the Snakes Thread

I think an equally interesting dynamic will be how Arizona, Atlanta, and the Mets handle the situation down the stretch.

The seeds are going to be as follows:

1. Philly/LAD

2. Philly/LAD

3. Milwaukee

4. San Diego

5-7. Arizona, NY Mets, and Atlanta

Right now the Braves are two back of the Dbacks and Mets with 10 to play. If the Braves fall farther back and the Dbacks and Mets clinch wild cards with a few games to play, they would likely rather play the Brewers rather than the Padres in a 3 game playoff series. The Padres would roll out Darvish, Blake Snell, and Musgrave as their 3 starters and the Brewers would likely have Peralta, Myers, and Montas.

The Brewers and Mets play 3 games to end the season. If you are the Mets and have a playoff series clinched, do you go all out to win the 3 games to make it more likely you'll play the Padres, or do you hold back a bit and make it more likely to play the Brewers the following week?

These teams won't admit it, but if I'm the Dbacks or the Mets, I would chose the Brewers 100 times out of 100.

Yeah the Mets could be in Milwaukee for 6 games in a row depending on how things shake out.   

• Brewers' Willy Adames: Getting first day off

  Rotowire 36 mins ago

  Adames isn't in the Brewers' lineup for Thursday's game against the Diamondbacks, Adam McCalvy of MLB.com reports.

  After clinching the NL Central on Wednesday, the Brewers will now give Adames his first off day of the season. Joey Ortiz will fill in as Milwaukee's shortstop while Andruw Monasterio starts at third base and bats ninth.

Yep, here's the line up: