A month into the season, which teams have helped and hurt their playoff chances the most?

This has to be simply the odds of making the playoffs and even then, the pre-season number seems a bit high. I recall most prognosticators having the Giants as either deep-fourth or fifth place in the division, which gives a team ZERO chance of making the places.

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A month into the season, which teams have helped and hurt their playoff chances the most?

San Francisco Giants

Preseason: 23.9 percent  |  Current: 12 percent |  Net: -11.9 percentage points

Speaking of which, the Giants can't catch a break of their own. Madison Bumgarner is probably a month away from rejoining the rotation, while Mark Melancon, Joe Panik, Hunter Pence and even Mac Williamson -- whose recent power surge inspired hope he was breaking out -- are all on the disabled list. To their credit, the Giants have stuck around .500. But, with the Diamondbacks jumping out to a quick, comfy lead in the division, San Francisco has seen its playoff odds drop by half. The Giants need to get healthy sooner than later to make a real run.Shared via CBS Sports

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Recall all of the "this team was built to compete in 2013 not 2018" articles. They must have touched up the numbers a bit, but I think 25-50% chance is still fairly reasonable just from the "eye test". Warts and all. The division appears weaker than thought and that helps the Giants chances more than most anything they've done this year, save for surviving April.

Turn the page, fellas.