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 …
Well, we are about three weeks into a new baseball season. For a while there, it looked like we weren’t going to have much of a season at all. We ended up with an abbreviated spring training and a regular season starting a week late, although they will be playing a full 162 game schedule. …
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A short while ago I was discussing my blog with a friend. She asked what I wrote about, and I replied that I write a little bit about everything. But I try to focus mainly on real estate and baseball, my two favorite subjects. She considered this for a moment then asked me an interesting …
This is an all too familiar phrase in the baseball lexicon, a mantra many fans have learned to live with for decades. Were you a Cubs fan, you chanted those four ubiquitous words at the end of every baseball season for 108 long years. Some years you were chanting them by the All Star break! …
Well, it was a wild final day of the 2021 baseball season with multiple single game tie breaking playoff scenarios dominating the diamond. This year MLB did something different by starting all games on Sunday at the exact same time, thus eliminating the slight adrenaline edge a team might gain knowing the team they were …
A tip of the hat and a big congratulations to Major League Baseball. I wanted to include this little congratulatory epilog at the end of last week’s blog, but it completely slipped my mind, even after my proofread. I blame the Alzheimer’s. The inaugural Field of Dreams game was a week ago last Thursday. To …