So here is the thing, with the rebalancing of the schedule, while we play more of the other division teams, we still only have to be better than the teams in our division to make the playoffs. Where it will actually hurt is the teams who got fat off of beating their own division, and not against the others. if you look at the games breakdown, the Sox and Cleveland had identical records against teams outside of their divisions in the AL. Cleveland gained 10 games by being better against the AL Central, and 1 by being a single game better than the Sox against the NL. Now some of those games are going away. I think what this means is that instead of being a low to mid 90's win team, it is going to be more like 85 or 86 games to win the division, and the Guards biggest advantage was just neutralized.