Today’s Lineups

Well, here’s to a quiet, calm Friday evening game without any journalistic Molotov cocktails being lobbed into the team dressing-room tonight! I will, however, continue to be the chilled ice-bath in terms of expectations, and today point out that Fangraphs currently gives the D-backs just a 2.5 percent change of making the playoffs. That’s one in forty if you prefer, and is actually lower than the Giants, whom we overtook in the standings with yesterday’s victory in Denver. They are at 3.2%. It’s mostly because the projection is for Arizona to go only 19-21 the rest of the way.

In turn, the strength of schedule factors into that, because the Rockies are the only team whose opponents have a higher average win percentage than Arizona’s .514. With the D-backs’ current losing

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