I’m not going to argue too much about matchups, because there are no easy outs and no matchups have really gone right for us in recent years, but the Dodgers are still the Dodgers, so avoiding both them and Philly, and guaranteeing that we don’t have to face both, seems like a reasonably good thing to me.
Aside from that, the Phillies win 68% of their games at home and 51% on the road. The Brewers win 65% of the time at home and 57% of the time on the road. There’s your potential game 7 location of the NLCS.
Do I think it’s a huge deal? No, I could absolutely see them going to the World Series as the 2, or getting knocked out of the NLDS as the 1.
Do I think it’s clearly an advantage? Yes.