Recently, we ranked the six 2023 MLB playoff teams that could be in trouble this year. Now, let's examine the clubs most likely to reach the postseason in 2024 after missing out last season.
There's a wide variety to this group: typical playoff contenders who saw major debacles lead to down seasons in 2023, squads that just narrowly missed out last year (some of whose fates came down to the final days of the season) and others who are newly on the rise.
Once again, we'll go off the historical trend of about half of playoff teams getting turned over from year to year -- so six of 12. Using my colleague Bradford Doolittle's most recent playoff odds, let's rank the top six candidates to join this year's postseason party and get into why they will, or won't, be playing baseball come October.