3/30/18

Q and A - Wild Card, Division Winner, and World Series Predictions




Mike Freire asks:

1.     Who are your picks for the Wild Cards, Division Winners and World Series Champion?


Michael Maar says –

            NL East:  Mets (I just have to - it's Spring)
NL Central: Cubs
NL West: Rockies
WCs:  Nats & Dodgers
AL East: Yankees
AL Central: Cleveland
AL West: Houston
WCs:  Minn - Boston

WS: Rockies - Indians
WS Champs:  Indians


Eddie Corona says –

The 2018 season is upon so here are my predictions surely to go wrong...

NL Division champions East: the Washington Nationals, Central: Chicago Cubs, West: LA Dodgers…

NL Wild Cards Milwaukee Brewers and Arizona Diamondbacks
Summary… This is chalk pick but I just can’t see how they I will not repeat. Especially the Nationals with how little each of the other team improved in the division and the Cubs with the addition of Darvish for a full season.

The Brewers are the most improved team in NL. They will compete for the Division but will just fall short to the more experienced Cubs. The Diamondbacks will barely hold on to the final wild card spot from the Rockies.

AL Division champions East: the NY Yankees, West Houston Astros, Central : Cleveland Indians

Wild Card Boston Red Sox and Oakland Athletics

Summary: Here is another repeat of last year of Division winners with the Astros boasting the most talented Roster top to bottom in the game and the Indians with perhaps the best starting Pitching plus the best manager in the sport. However this begins the return of the Mighty Yankees run for the next decade

The Red Sox and Yankees will battle all year for the division and will renew a decade of division wars for the top of the NL East. The Red Sox will fall short with 94 wins. This will do the year where Oakland does just enough sneak into the last wild card slot.

Playoffs Milwaukee Brewers Defeat Arizona Diamondbacks
Dodgers Defeat the Cubs
Brewers Defeat the Nationals
Brewers Defeat the Dodgers to reach the World Series
Playoffs Red Sox defeat the Athletics
Dodgers Red Sox the NY Yankees
Cleveland Indians Defeat Houston Astros
Red Sox defeat the Indians to reach the World Series
Brewers Defeat the Red Sox for the 2018 World Series
Summary:The AL playoffs are classics filled with some of the best young talent in the Game. The Red Sox make it all the way to the World Series to fall to the Brewers.
The Brewers grind to Through the playoffs but Yelich shows he is a star and leads them to the World Series.

Brewers as the World Series Champs has a nice ring to it.


Tom Brennan says –

Wow.  That is a wide-open question.  I think that the Mets will win the Eastern Division, punish the Yanks in the World Series, and ride down the Canyon of Champeens.  Because I feel that a lot will go RIGHT this year, the diametric opposite of 2017.  Dominic Smith hopes to be a part of most of that, and now uses 6 alarm clocks to show he is serious about that.

Nats and St Louis as wild cards, and the Dodgers and Cubs as the other NL Division winners.  Spending does help, you see.

In the AL, Cleveland, the Bronx Super Bombers, and Shohei Otani's Angels win their divisions, and the ever-present Red Sox and Robby Cano's Mariners snatch the wild cards.


Reese Kaplan says –

            AL East -- Yankees
AL Central -- Indians
AL West -- Astros

Red Sox and Mariners get Wildcard

NL East -- Nationals
NL Central -- Cubs
NL West -- Dodgers

Diamondbacks and Rockies get Wildcard

World Series Champion –

Washington Nationals (before they lose Bryce Harper to free agency)


Mike Freire says –

It is always odd answering your own question!   Some may call you a bit crazy talking to yourself......... Joking aside, here is my take on the 2018 MLB season;

NL East         Washington (it hurts to type this)
NL Central     Chicago
NL West        Los Angeles

Wild Cards   

Milwaukee, Colorado (the Mets fall a few games short, but still finish over .500)
AL East         New York (ugh)
AL Central    Cleveland
AL West        Houston

Wild Cards    Boston, Seattle

Wild Card Round  

Colorado over Milwaukee
Boston over Seattle

Divisional Round

Washington over Chicago
Los Angeles over Colorado
Cleveland over New York (ha)
Boston over Houston

ALCS/NLCS

Los Angeles over Washington
Cleveland over Boston

World Series

Los Angeles over Cleveland



Bill Metsiac says –

Forever the optimist, I go all the way with the Mets. Division and WS. Cubs and Dodgers in the other NL divisions, and Nats for WC.
In the AL, the Division winners will be the Stros, Tribe and Sawks. Yanks WC. Tribe to the WS, so Callaway can beat his mentor.



Conrad “Hobie” Youngrens says –

            NL:

NLE-Nats; NLC-Brewers; NLW-LADs; WC-Mets,Cubs
Mets Over Cubs
Mets over LAD’s
MILW ove WAS
NLCS: Mets over MILW

AL:

ALE-BoSox; ALC-Tribe; ALW-Astros; WC-Yanks, LAA’s
Yanks over LAA’s (Apple sweeps LaLaLand)
Yanks over Astros
CLEV over BOS
ALCS: Yanks over CLEV

WS:
Mets in 6!

(That was easy!)
           

8 comments:

Tom Brennan said...

Metsiac, Hobie, and Me...great title for a movie, and 3 great minds picking the right 2018 Worlds Champs - da Mets

Reese Kaplan said...

Would you have picked the same way had there not been a change in management?

Tom Brennan said...

No - while Callaway is a mostly blank canvas, I like EVERYTHING I see of him...Collins, I had many disagreements with, two examples of which I have noted in the past, notably using Familia when he had just returned last year in a meaningless night game, and then a tight game the next afternoon - and the surgeon's knife days later - and having short reliever Sewald throw 84 pitches in 18 hours around the same time, risking his arm too.

I hope Callaway will himself (through inspiration and pitching savvy) be a several extra win factor.

Cespedes in an interview the other day (his first ever in English) was stoked, and said he was pleased with a younger manager like Callaway who thinks more like "we" do. That spoke volumes to me. it makes a huge difference when you truly like and respect your boss.

Reese Kaplan said...

I'm glaod it was YOU who quoted Cespdes' sentiments about you-know-who.

Tom Brennan said...

Not my opinion, as you know, Reese, just relaying what Cespedes actually said. Now, all he needs to give us is .300/50/150 :)

Eddie from Corona said...

Mack what are your selections?

bill metsiac said...

👍

bill metsiac said...

ABSOLUTELY!