Over the past few weeks, I have laid out my assessment of how I think this current MLB season will unfold. Come October we’ll see how I did. I’m sure between now and then there will be some major surprises. Players and/or teams that nobody saw, coming out of nowhere to storm the rest of …
NATIONAL LEAGUE WEST LOS ANGELES DODGERS (106 – 56 in 2021) The Dodgers are consensus favorites to win the World Series this year, picked by just about every preseason pole to do just that. It seems like every season they put out the strongest lineup in the major leagues, at least on paper. Last …
NATIONAL LEAGUE CENTRAL MILWAUKEE BREWERS (95 – 67 in 2021) For the Milwaukee Brewers it’s going to come down to pitching. But then, it comes down to pitching for most teams. Reigning Cy Young Award winner Corbin Burns is once again joined by Brandon Woodruff and Freddy Peralta, arguably the best 1-2-3 combination in …
NATIONAL LEAGUE EAST NEW YORK METS (77 – 85 in 2021) The New York Mets had a very disappointing campaign in 2021. Give credit to the new ownership, though. Steve Cohen didn’t wait around hoping to see improvement year over year. Instead, he pretty much put a brand-new team on the field with new …
AMERICAN LEAGUE EAST TORONTO BLUE JAYS (91 – 71 in 2021) Under the new playoff format, in which MLB has added a third wild card team in each league, the Blue Jays 91 wins last season would have gotten them into the playoffs. But last year there were only two wild card teams, the …
CHICAGO WHITE SOX (93 – 69 in 2021) Last season the White Sox brought in Tony La Russa to manage the team. He promptly guided them to 93 victories in spite of an unprecedented number of injuries. Of course, that was the whole point of bringing La Russa back to Chicago. The man started …