9/1/21 : Did Ya Know 🤔🤷‍♂️

At present eight National League clubs are vying for five playoff spots. The Dodgers, Giants, Brewers, Braves, Reds, Padres, Cardinals and Phillies are set to make the final push to determine who appears in the 2021 National League playoffs.

Here’s a look at the active roster makeup as of 8/31 for each club … ranked in order by the total of “Internally developed” … although Freddy Galvis was recently reacquired by the Phillies via trade I’m including him in the “Internally developed” total since he grew up with the Phillies.

Just a glimpse of the current playoff contending active rosters … of course they will continue to change … expands to 28 today plus players will move back and forth from the IL.

Summary of the 8 rosters … 208 players - traded for - 71 ( 34 % ), internally developed - 63 ( 30 % ), free agents - 66 ( 32 % ) and waivers/rule - 8 - 5 ( 4 % )

Cardinals :

Active Roster - 13 pitchers - 13 position players - 13 internally developed

Traded for : 8 - Lester, Happ, Gallegos, Cabrera, Wainwright, Arenado, Goldschmidt, O’Neill

Signed and Developed : 13 - Reyes, Fernandez, Whitley, Ponce de Leon, Carpenter, Molina ,DeJong, Nootbaar, Edman, Knizner, Bader, Sosa, Carlson

Traded for and Developed : 0

Signed as Free Agents : 5 - Kim, Garcia, Mikolas, McFarland, Rondon

Selected off Waivers : 0

Phillies :

Active Roster - 14 pitchers - 12 position players - 11 internally developed

Traded for : 6 - Alvarado, Kennedy, Coonrad, Gibson, Segura, Realmuto

Signed and Developed : 9 - Brogdon, Neris, Nola, Suarez, Falter, Vierling, Marchan, Maton, Galvis

Traded for and Developed : 2 - Hammer, De Los Santos

Signed as Free Agents : 8- Bradley, Moore, Wheeler, Bonifacio, Torreyes, Miller, Harper, McCutchen

Rule 5 - 1 - Herrera

Selected off Waivers : 0

Braves :

Active Roster - 14 pitchers - 12 position players - 9 internally developed

Traded for : 7 - Santana, Rodriquez, Duvall, Vogt, Soler, Pederson, Rosario

Signed and Developed : 5 - Anderson, Minter, Albies, Riley, Freeman

Traded for and Developed : 4 - Ynoa, Fried, Toussaint, Swanson

Signed as Free Agents : 9 - Chavez, Jackson, Smyly, Morton, Matzek, Martin, Smith, d’Arnaud, Adrianza

Selected off Waivers : 1 - Heredia

Reds :

Active Roster - 13 pitchers - 13 position players - 9 internally developed

Traded for : 8 - Castillo, Gray, Givens, Cessa, Sims, Wilson, Hoffman, Suarez

Signed and Developed : 9 - Gutierrez, Mahle, Santillan, Lorenzen, Garrett, Barnett, Stephenson, India, Votto

Traded for and Developed : 0

Signed as Free Agents : 7 - Miley, Akiyama, Castellanos, Moustakas, Aquino, Naquin, Farmer

Selected off Waivers : 2 - Cabrera, Schrock

Dodgers :

Active Roster - 14 pitchers - 12 position players - 7 internally developed

Traded for : 10 - Price, Knebel, Scherzer, Graterol, Vesia, Betts, T.Turner, Taylor, McKinney, Barnes

Signed and Developed : 7 - Smith, Jansen, Bellinger, Beuhler, Urias, Seager, Bruihl

Traded for and Developed : 0

Signed as Free Agents : 7 - Greene, Treinen, Kelly, Muncy, J. Turner, Pujols, Pollock

Selected off Waivers : 2 - Bickford, Phillips

Giants :

Active Roster - 14 pitchers - 12 position players - 6 internally developed

Traded for : 5 - Watson, Yastrzemski, Wade, Bryant, Dickerson

Signed and Developed : 6 - Webb, Rogers, Posey, Crawford, Belt, Slater

Traded for and Developed : 0

Signed as Free Agents : 13 - Leone, Alvarez, Cueto, Gausman, Jackson, McGee, Long, Littell, DeSclafani, Ruf, Casali, LaStella, Flores

Selected off Waivers : 2 - Quintana, Garcia

Brewers :

Active Roster - 14 pitchers - 12 position players - 6 internally developed

Traded for : 10 - Houser, Strickland, Norris, Lauer, Adames, Urias, Pina, Narvaez, Tellez, Yelich

Signed and Developed : 5 - Ashby, Woodruff, Suter, Burnes, Williams

Traded for and Developed : 1 - Hader

Signed as Free Agents : 10 - Boxberger, Anderson, Milner, Cousins, Bradley Jr, Wong, Cain, Reyes, Peterson, Garcia

Selected off Waivers : 0

Padres :

Active Roster - 13 pitchers - 13 position players - 2 internally developed

Traded for : 17 - Darvish, Hill, Musgrove, Pagan, Snell, Adams, Hudson, Paddack, Profar, Frazier, Marisnick, Cronenworth, Pham, Grisham, Caratini, Myers, Nola

Signed and Developed : 1 - Weathers

Traded for and Developed : 1 - Tatis Jr

Signed as Free Agents : 7 - Johnson, Crismat, Staman, Melancon, Machado, Kim, Hosmer

Selected off Waivers : 0