This is crazy. This is unbelievable. This is nuts. Okay, it's not really any of those things, but it is pretty neat. The NL West, the team thought by many to be the worst division in baseball, isn't. Not stopping there, every team in the NL West is above .500. That is crazy, and if you had told anyone this would be the case last year, they would have thought you were nuts. Remember, last year there were talks about a team making the playoffs from the NL West with a losing record. San Diego finished the season 2 games above even, ending that story, but it could have easily happened. Even at 2 games above .500, a mark that 13 other teams managed, San Diego was 5 games ahead of the rest of the division. I was originally going to talk about how everyone was wrong; not just in considering the NL West to be the weakest, but also in considering the NL East to be the strongest. This is somewhat true, but not as true as I was hoping. The NL East had a big problem until recently; only the Mets were performing. Then the Phillies went on a tear and caught up, before promptly slowing down, and now the Braves are currently the ones trying to catch up to the Mets. All three teams at the top are streaking teams, equally capable of losing or winning several in a row, but I think that they will steady the ship as we progress into the regular season. Consistency is key, and those teams have a better record with consistency. The NL West, on the other hand, is a division without a leader. San Diego has gone through and won series against the Dodgers and Giants, then lost several games against the Rockies and Diamondbacks. All 5 teams are within 2 games of each other, so whichever team goes on a run and wins several in a row will have a good lead in the division. The depth of the division, however shaky its leader is, does keep it from being considered the worst division in baseball. That distinction goes to the AL West, with two teams tied at 2 above .500 and the other two teams left 4 and 5 games back.