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!)
Metsiac, Hobie, and Me...great title for a movie, and 3 great minds picking the right 2018 Worlds Champs - da Mets
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DeleteWould you have picked the same way had there not been a change in management?
ReplyDeleteABSOLUTELY!
DeleteNo - 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.
ReplyDeleteI 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.
I'm glaod it was YOU who quoted Cespdes' sentiments about you-know-who.
ReplyDeleteNot my opinion, as you know, Reese, just relaying what Cespedes actually said. Now, all he needs to give us is .300/50/150 :)
ReplyDeleteMack what are your selections?
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