September Call-Ups Impacting the Wild Card Race

Let's be real. The final month of the Major League Baseball regular season is a brutal war of attrition. 

Traditional September baseball was defined by a chaotic, bloated 40-man roster expansion - a procedural quirk that turned late-season games into endless, matchup-heavy slogs. 

The reality today is completely different. The latest collective bargaining agreement slashed that allowance to a strict 28-man limit, permanently altering late-season front office calculus.