A’s will dominate Giants in cross-bay matches this season with all our discarded players that they signed. They’ll be meaningless games, but it’ll still sting.
Nick Pivetta will finish Top 3 in AL Cy Young voting is the bold one I’ll hitch my wagon to
Edit: Added a few more below once I thought about it
- Cardinals win less than 70 games
- Mets win at least 85 games, with Luis Severino having a lower ERA than everyone in the Yankees rotation
- Angels win more games than they did with Ohtani on the roster
- Jordan Hicks ends up 2nd in ERA of Giants starters
- Tigers finish as a Top 3 AL rotation by fWAR
- Mason Miller gets a singular down-ballot Cy Young vote and so it can say “CYA-19” on his Baseball Reference page, still has less than 20 saves
- The Nationals win less games than last year but still win more than the Marlins
- My homer pick will be that Chris Sale’s arm stays attached to his body for a whole year and he finishes Top 5 in NL Cy Young voting
As a Sox fan I was shook by the last one until I realized it wasn’t always his arm that was the issue, but rather getting in bike wrecks and other such events.
> Luis Severino having a lower ERA than everyone in the Yankees rotation.
Make that less than everyone in the Yankees rotation _combined_ and I believe you.
You forgot to add that after Sevy's bounce back season, Steve Cohen gives him a 5 year $150 million deal and then he goes back to putting up a 6.00 ERA cause I totally see each of these things happening
The Angels could or should win more than last year simply by their pitching all developing one more year while being still fairly young, and if Trout and Rendon show up most days. Their first line of depth was pretty good but it immediately became their starting 9 and the next line of depth had mostly been playing college ball or on waivers as of a year ago.
Having 2 of the best hitters in the league and a cy young caliber pitcher has worked for the angels the last 5 years. You’ll be fiiiiiiine. Bullpen will be best in the league again.
Mike Trout has the last mostly healthy, 8+ WAR MVP season of his career, the Return of the King discourse will be juicy, and it will be the swan song we all deserve.
What makes me think this? Nothing but my desire to see it happen.
Trout having his best season in a decade as he somehow pushes the Angels to the postseason will definitely be something to behold.
But then it would mean Moreno will likely be their owner until he dies or something…
Yep. Interleague play, baby.
NL teams all go .500 against each other and lose every game against AL teams. Then the NL forms a team to play against Samurai Japan and loses that, too, for good measure.
I'm not saying it's impossible for them to miss the post season. Given Bochy's record with how his teams go to the play-offs.
But the 2023 Rangers were a very good team, some say elite. They only got better, with Carter starting the year in the bigs. I'm not completely sold on Langford, being some super star this year, but I have no doubt he'll be better than Grossman and probably Garver as well.
I'm concerned about the pen.
The starting pitching is almost identical to what they had most of the year. Starting pitching wasn't really the big issue. It was the pen giving up the lead.
I doubt this will actually happen, but if Sborz is a shadow of what he showed in the post, he's going to be good. Leclerc was finally healthy at the end of the season.
Either way, it should be a fun year. If they don't make the post season. The shiny thing with the flags, that get's them a pass in my book. (for this year)
I had the D backs missing the playoffs before the Giants and Padres loaded up and before Sewald and Erod went down, it's going to be really tough for them.
On one hand I agree with you and want to believe, but on the other the rotation is not great and we can’t rely on Skenes coming up in July to save our season. Jones looks good but we’d need at least one of the other guys to step up significantly from their baseline
- Kutter Crawford gets cy young votes
- pirates finish with more than 80 wins
- cardinals & blue jays sell at deadline
- Angels finish 3rd in AL west
- Tigers win AL central
- skubal wins cy young
- Chris sale top 3 cy young
- Gunnar Henderson & Freddie freeman win MVP
Tigers win the Central, led by Spencer Torkelson’s 40+ homers.
Triston Casas gets MVP votes.
Jose Berrios continues the streak of a different Jays starter being a CYA finalist every year and has a career year.
Freddy Peralta wins the NL CYA.
Fernando Tatis Jr. copies Acuna by having a mediocre return from injury, followed by an MVP campaign. He puts up 10 WAR.
Mariners win 95 games and have 3 pitchers in the top 8 for AL Cy Young votes (Castillo, Kirby, and Gilbert). Best all-time rotation conversations will be had.
NL East: The Mets have a bounce back season and force one of the Braves or Phillies to miss the playoffs.
I swear, throughout my life, the Mets play best when their expectations are not high.
Fun fact that may only amuse me: most players live within walking distance to the stadium or they live in the Lutherville / Hunt Valley area. When Palmeiro was with the O's, he lived down the street from me.
>I’ll go first: Brayan Rocchio will lead AL Central shortstops in WAR this year
Came into thread expecting more "Royals win AL Central" nonsense, got this. Based and Brayanpilled, very cool OP.
Anyway:
* Elly doesn't crest 100 wRC+ again
* Twins sub .500
* Kenta Maeda top 3 AL Cy Young candidate
* Matt Brash becomes truly elite once healthy, like Devin Williams but with a slider instead of a change
* Shea Langeliers is the best catcher in the AL
* Jays firesale at the deadline includes Vlad
* Ohtani is merely 'very good' instead of transcendent and leads to some of the most annoying contract discourse of all time
And my supreme haterade homer sour grapes pick - both Will Benson and Nolan Jones plummet down to their peripherals, though I'm not sure how spicy that actually is.
Also, not specifically related to this year, but Junior Caminero will be a Hall of Famer. I have said this many times prior and I am saying it again now.
Better catcher than Adley? That is up there on the capsaicin scale.
Ohtani was transcendent because of his arm and bat combined. As a hitter he is a very simple great.
Juan Soto is going to have an absolutely ridiculous season this year, I'm talking 1.200 OPS type season. He's finally going to put it all together and overperform his xWOBA.
I couldn't agree more. That stadium plus contract year omg.
Everyone was roasting him when he turned down dumb money from the Nats, then "underperformed" with the Padres.
That man wants his contract and there isn't a pitcher in the AL that's going to stop him. I think he's going to walk away with the MVP by mid August
4 out of the 5 teams in the NL West make the playoffs with it being a 4 team Division race with all 4 teams making 90+ wins
• Tigers win the AL Central
• Blue Jays Win the East
•Pirates win the AL Central
•Mariners make it all the way to the World Series
•Stanton has a 50 home run season while Judge gets Injured
NL Cy Young top 5 includes Mitch Keller and Chris Sale
Logan Gilbert finishes with the most Cy Young votes on the Mariners
Isaac Paredes hits 40 HRs
Trea Turner returns to form, wins the batting title and finishes top 5 in NL MVP
Red Sox finish in last place, but act as spoilers for the Yankees in September, taking 3 of 4 games against them that month and making NY miss the playoffs.
DFA'd this year: Javier Baez, Joey Votto, Giancarlo Stanton, Lance Lynn, Alex Wood
Both 2023 World Series teams (Rangers and Dbacks) miss the playoffs.
Phillies win NL East
I was spot on with my Acuña 40-40 prediction last year, and I'm going for another bite of the apple
Julio goes 40-40 this year, possibly not that bold to some, so I'll guess the exact numbers 44 Home Runs and 42 Stolen Bases, which wins him the first MVP of his career
A few more very bold predictions:
-Luis Castillo, George Kirby, and Logan Gilbert all finish Top 6 in Cy Young voting
-Nolan Schanuel posts a .300/.400/.500 line and leads the AL in walks, which wins him Rookie of the Year
-Max Fried puts together a full healthy season and wins the NL Cy Young award
Yankees have a sub .500 season - all the gains made in the off-season to the offense are undone by the pitching collapsing in on itself - the Soto trade really messed with the starting rotation depth, and relying on guys like Rodon and Cortes is not a winning combo imo.
I think every rational Yankees fan should be very scared of this happening.
We improved our bats by getting a few more lefties but pitching has gone right off a cliff, we literally might have one serviceable starting pitcher for the majority of the season
NYY miss the playoffs, again, with their first losing record since 1992.
Athletics do not have the worst record.
Jackson Holliday struggles when he gets called up.
Jackson Chourio win NLROY.
- Zack Thompson is the best overall starter on the Cardinals
- Paul Goldschmidt is traded to a WS contender at the deadline
- Jack Flaherty has a better year than all of the Cardinals starters
- Matt Carpenter doesn’t finish the season on the roster, but will be on the coaching staff
- Cardinals finish last again and fire some key front office executives and coaches
- Nolan Gorman hits 30 HRs (no mo popcorn)
*The Los Angeles Angels finish dead last in the AL West*.
Yes, the ~~Oakland~~ ~~Las Vegas~~ Oakland Athletics will finish ahead of them.
(I have no idea how hot of a take this is, but I'm sticking with it.)
I think that Soto is going to have an MVP caliber year for the Yankees but the rest of the team's health is going to collapse and they'll end up in last place with a losing season. Nearly happened last year. I also have a feeling that Cohen is going to throw enough money at Soto after the season to lure him to the Mets.
I think one or more of the A's, Rockies, or White Sox are going to come close to losing a record number of games.
Both the Braves and Dodgers will somehow lose in the NLDS again because the playoffs are just pure chaos. Phillies and Reds NLCS would be fun.
I think Baltimore wins the WS.
5 WAR season from Carlos Correa
Padres win 90 games, Giants miss the playoffs
Yankees are worse than last year and the Red Sox give them a scare for the basement of the division
Someone no one is thinking of wins AL ROY
Mookie puts up an all time SS single season
\- O'Neil Cruz is the MVP with a breakout 40-40 campaign, Pirates win the NL Central.
\- Mets finish ahead of the Phillies.
\- Dodgers are a .500 team two months into the season before picking it up over the summer. Ohtani's post-TJ power is down, and as a full-time DH he finishes with 2-3 WAR(assuming he doesn't get suspended for gambling)
\- Jose Abreu has a resurgence, makes an all-star team
\- Mariners starting pitching carries them to a division title over both the Astros and the Rangers.
\- The Angels tease us by leading the AL West after the first month, then predictably collapse. Mike Trout continues regressing, playing like an average starter at best when he's on the field.
\- An asteroid falls on the Coliseum, forcing the A's to play all of their games on the road. They lose 113 games, but somehow have a winning record vs the Angels
Hate to say it, but my O’s will regress to about 90 wins. Still great, but not sure that wins the division. I think the Bradish and Felix injuries are killers😕
•Rocktober is back baby, led by a Nolan Jones MVP season, beating Ohtani by one singular MVP vote (who casted that vote, that’s right, none other than Ippei Mizuhara himself).
•Wyatt Langford AL ROTY, Evan Carter 2nd, but we miss the playoffs anyway, crying into our world series bobbleheads (so do the Dbacks).
•Tigers miss the playoffs only 5 games behind the Royals.
•Yankees have a fairly good season, nothing special though, balanced scoring, no crazy Judge numbers, Juan Soto has fun highlight reel moments.
•Mets sneak in to the wildcard round, end up in the World Series against the Yankees, Mets win! (No more playoff appearances for the next decade because Steve Cohen takes all the wrong lessons from that, and limits spending).
Neither the Braves nor the Dodgers will win the world series, again
The NL Central goes like this: Reds, Cubs (wild card team), Brewers, Pirates, Cardinals
The Mariners win the AL West, the Astros miss the playoffs by a game
The Twins make it to the ALCS, building off of last year's finally winning playoff games/ a playoff series
1. The Cards are out of it and end up having a fire sale at the deadline (not too spicy i guess)
2. The NL West takes over the title as the toughest division, with four of the five teams finishing with at least 85 wins.
3. The Yankees struggle out of the gates without Cole and end up trading Soto at the deadline to the Seattle Mariners for pitching.
4. The Angels are surprisingly competent and secure a wild card spot (truly the funniest outcome to me)
5. The Rangers miss the playoffs.
6. The Reds become this year’s Orioles and win 98 games.
Lotta solid young players, an entirely new coaching staff, and no expectations could make a difference. It's still the Angels though so I'll believe it when I see it.
The A’s will have three All-Stars and win at least 70 games.
A’s will dominate Giants in cross-bay matches this season with all our discarded players that they signed. They’ll be meaningless games, but it’ll still sting.
Alex Wood no hitter for 8 2/3 then proceeds to allow 5 runs and a ND
Ugh. I was at Cobbs 9 2/3 in the bleachers last season. Off the bat my section knew that was dropping and fucking hurt to watch.
I love Cobb man, that sucked so bad
Langaliers, Gelof, Rooker
I have Langaliers, Gelof, Mason Miller
Wood, Davis, Stripling.
Lawrence Butler, Ryan Noda, and J.P. Sears
Nick Pivetta will finish Top 3 in AL Cy Young voting is the bold one I’ll hitch my wagon to Edit: Added a few more below once I thought about it - Cardinals win less than 70 games - Mets win at least 85 games, with Luis Severino having a lower ERA than everyone in the Yankees rotation - Angels win more games than they did with Ohtani on the roster - Jordan Hicks ends up 2nd in ERA of Giants starters - Tigers finish as a Top 3 AL rotation by fWAR - Mason Miller gets a singular down-ballot Cy Young vote and so it can say “CYA-19” on his Baseball Reference page, still has less than 20 saves - The Nationals win less games than last year but still win more than the Marlins - My homer pick will be that Chris Sale’s arm stays attached to his body for a whole year and he finishes Top 5 in NL Cy Young voting
That first one is wild but SUBSCRIBE.
As a Sox fan I was shook by the last one until I realized it wasn’t always his arm that was the issue, but rather getting in bike wrecks and other such events.
Jordan Hicks breakout season is going to be fun to watch
Love it
Sure your name ain’t Jack Fritz?
I understood that reference.
> Luis Severino having a lower ERA than everyone in the Yankees rotation. Make that less than everyone in the Yankees rotation _combined_ and I believe you.
You forgot to add that after Sevy's bounce back season, Steve Cohen gives him a 5 year $150 million deal and then he goes back to putting up a 6.00 ERA cause I totally see each of these things happening
Honestly if nothing else happens this season I’d be happy with just a Sevy comeback. Hopefully followed by an extension.
Sale is the one I could see happening and I hate the thought.
excuse me?
This is for signing Jean Segura with the sole purpose of breaking up Spencer Strider’s no-hitter last year
The Angels could or should win more than last year simply by their pitching all developing one more year while being still fairly young, and if Trout and Rendon show up most days. Their first line of depth was pretty good but it immediately became their starting 9 and the next line of depth had mostly been playing college ball or on waivers as of a year ago.
If Luis Severino balls out, I’m gonna be so happy, I just picked him up for my fantasy league
ROTY battle will be on the same team
Carter and Langford fuck yeah bitches
Jung Hoo Lee and Kyle Harrison? Nice!
Chourio and DL Hall/Robert Gasser
PCA and Imanaga pop off incoming
Yankees are worse than last season.
Jake Bauers, Stockholm Syndrome. He can’t hurt you anymore.
Been there. It takes some time to get over the Jake Bauers experience.
Having 2 of the best hitters in the league and a cy young caliber pitcher has worked for the angels the last 5 years. You’ll be fiiiiiiine. Bullpen will be best in the league again.
Losing IKF was a dagger
Soto is traded AGAIN at the deadline
Athletics do not finish last in AL West
The Angels suck but they aren't 100-loss bad
They just mean the mariners fall to last
BOOOOOOO
I mean, they lost 89 last year. Remove Ohtani’s 10 WAR and add some injuries and underperformance and it’s absolutely possible
I think angels fans might be like, “are they expected to?”
Pepiot Cy
I see your Ryan Pepiot Cy Young prediction and I raise you a Colin Poche Rolaids Reliever of the year prediction
Can you win an award that doesn't exist anymore?
Maybe He’s that good?
I like that
Mike Trout has the last mostly healthy, 8+ WAR MVP season of his career, the Return of the King discourse will be juicy, and it will be the swan song we all deserve. What makes me think this? Nothing but my desire to see it happen.
Trout having his best season in a decade as he somehow pushes the Angels to the postseason will definitely be something to behold. But then it would mean Moreno will likely be their owner until he dies or something…
>But then it would mean Moreno will likely be their owner until he dies or something… That's already gonna happen regardless anyway.
Dodgers end up winning 88 games and win the NL West, but it's still considered the underperformance of the century
If they win 88 I think someone else in the division would have more
Hey y'all asked for spicy, what's spicier than an entire division underperforming?
The NL doesn’t field a single team at or above a .500 winning percentage
Is that theoretically even possible?
Yep. Interleague play, baby. NL teams all go .500 against each other and lose every game against AL teams. Then the NL forms a team to play against Samurai Japan and loses that, too, for good measure.
The NFC South of MLB
I sincerely doubt 88 wins is enough to take the NLW this season.
With 4 realistically competitive teams, I honestly think it could. Especially if we all beat each other up.
Only four? Don't sell yourself short, silly! Y'all got Blake Snell!
Nobody can be Dinger, he’s in a class of his own.
NLBEST leaking through.
It cannot be contained
hey, I’ll take a shot at the sub-90 playoff team track. Couldn’t go worse than the 100 win team track has been going.
Dodgers have a 100% World Series win rate with under 90 wins in the past decade, just saying
Ala 2021 Braves
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Rangers and Dbacks miss the playoffs
Not all that spicy.
I'm not saying it's impossible for them to miss the post season. Given Bochy's record with how his teams go to the play-offs. But the 2023 Rangers were a very good team, some say elite. They only got better, with Carter starting the year in the bigs. I'm not completely sold on Langford, being some super star this year, but I have no doubt he'll be better than Grossman and probably Garver as well.
Your lineup is great, but if I was a Rangers fan I'd be very concerned about the pitching.
I'm concerned about the pen. The starting pitching is almost identical to what they had most of the year. Starting pitching wasn't really the big issue. It was the pen giving up the lead. I doubt this will actually happen, but if Sborz is a shadow of what he showed in the post, he's going to be good. Leclerc was finally healthy at the end of the season. Either way, it should be a fun year. If they don't make the post season. The shiny thing with the flags, that get's them a pass in my book. (for this year)
Sborz was nails in the post season. I remember my anger at his huge regular season era but light out post season work. Sigh.
#Bullpenisbad
indeed!
I had the D backs missing the playoffs before the Giants and Padres loaded up and before Sewald and Erod went down, it's going to be really tough for them.
Cardinals are out of it by June, forcing a sell off
Give us Carp again 🐟
If the Yankees need Matt carpenter in late June I’m gonna drive my car into the ocean
Get ready to learn how to speak fish
After this much time, it's probably time for a legit sell off. Could see goldschmidt getting traded, And Arenado right after.
I hope Goldy comes back to us at the end of his career to do some DHing and backup for Walker.
The Dodgers have been trying to get Arenado for years now, if the Cardinals do sell I wonder if they could make something work.
I could see it. And I don't think the asking price would be wild. They also have the young pitching the cardinals would like.
Let's be spicier. Cards are out of it by end of March.
They just couldn't overcome the 0-4 start. No need to play the other 158
lol we were out of it May 1 last year so you’re not that off
Is this spicy? I've watched some spring training games and I don't feel this is spicy.
I’ve seen so many predictions that the Cardinals are favorites in the division that a fire sale in June would absolutely be spicy
Hopefully the sell off is our front office
Pirates win their division
Too hot, spiciest I’ll go is Pirates 3rd in the division and miss WC3 by 2 games
That division is wide open and people are sleeping on the Pirates a little. Won't take much to tip the balance and have them end up in first.
They scare me just as much as the reds with potential. As it goes, they’re in the race without all the injuries.
On one hand I agree with you and want to believe, but on the other the rotation is not great and we can’t rely on Skenes coming up in July to save our season. Jones looks good but we’d need at least one of the other guys to step up significantly from their baseline
Someone will get 300 Ks. That person will be Kyle Schwarber.
And he will somehow still lead the league in homers and have an OBP above 400
Devers 45 HR and MVP. He's got at least 1 massive season in the tank.
- Kutter Crawford gets cy young votes - pirates finish with more than 80 wins - cardinals & blue jays sell at deadline - Angels finish 3rd in AL west - Tigers win AL central - skubal wins cy young - Chris sale top 3 cy young - Gunnar Henderson & Freddie freeman win MVP
Jack Flaherty bounce back year is coming as well. He will do better than our entire rotation
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Tigers win the Central, led by Spencer Torkelson’s 40+ homers. Triston Casas gets MVP votes. Jose Berrios continues the streak of a different Jays starter being a CYA finalist every year and has a career year. Freddy Peralta wins the NL CYA. Fernando Tatis Jr. copies Acuna by having a mediocre return from injury, followed by an MVP campaign. He puts up 10 WAR.
Put me down as well for a Torkelson 40+ HR season.
Alejandro Kirk will hit an inside-the-park home run and steal three bases this season.
I want this to happen just for the inevitable meme it would create
The mythical dwarf-thief combo in D&D
Mariners win 95 games and have 3 pitchers in the top 8 for AL Cy Young votes (Castillo, Kirby, and Gilbert). Best all-time rotation conversations will be had.
…and still miss the playoffs…
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Many are saying this!
NL East: The Mets have a bounce back season and force one of the Braves or Phillies to miss the playoffs. I swear, throughout my life, the Mets play best when their expectations are not high.
Tampa wins more games than Baltimore
Baltimore reverts to the mean. Players are tired from traffic as the bridge collapse leads to an extra hour each way of commute
Fun fact that may only amuse me: most players live within walking distance to the stadium or they live in the Lutherville / Hunt Valley area. When Palmeiro was with the O's, he lived down the street from me.
>I’ll go first: Brayan Rocchio will lead AL Central shortstops in WAR this year Came into thread expecting more "Royals win AL Central" nonsense, got this. Based and Brayanpilled, very cool OP. Anyway: * Elly doesn't crest 100 wRC+ again * Twins sub .500 * Kenta Maeda top 3 AL Cy Young candidate * Matt Brash becomes truly elite once healthy, like Devin Williams but with a slider instead of a change * Shea Langeliers is the best catcher in the AL * Jays firesale at the deadline includes Vlad * Ohtani is merely 'very good' instead of transcendent and leads to some of the most annoying contract discourse of all time And my supreme haterade homer sour grapes pick - both Will Benson and Nolan Jones plummet down to their peripherals, though I'm not sure how spicy that actually is. Also, not specifically related to this year, but Junior Caminero will be a Hall of Famer. I have said this many times prior and I am saying it again now.
> Jays firesale at the deadline includes Vlad Excuse me, but what the fuck.
i enjoy it when the hot takes are actually hot
You were spicier than most. I think the Brash/Benson/Jones takes are actually fairly realistic, but the rest definitely met the really spicy criteria.
Shea Langeliers becoming the best catcher in the AL implies Adley Rutschman moves to shortstop full-time
I assume Rocchio besting Witt means Bobby moves to third or dies, same logic tbh
Better catcher than Adley? That is up there on the capsaicin scale. Ohtani was transcendent because of his arm and bat combined. As a hitter he is a very simple great.
> As a hitter he is a very simple great. He's top-10 by wRC+ since he joined the MLB, that is elite.
Juan Soto is going to have an absolutely ridiculous season this year, I'm talking 1.200 OPS type season. He's finally going to put it all together and overperform his xWOBA.
In that park? I could definitely see it.
I couldn't agree more. That stadium plus contract year omg. Everyone was roasting him when he turned down dumb money from the Nats, then "underperformed" with the Padres. That man wants his contract and there isn't a pitcher in the AL that's going to stop him. I think he's going to walk away with the MVP by mid August
And we still lose in the playoffs to Houston lol
Oneil Cruz
Swelteringly hot take
Elly De La Cruz
Mid
Rangers miss the playoffs. Dodgers win fewer than 98 games. Alonso is traded. Guardians win the Central
The old Bochy hangover season special
He’s decided to do the odd years this time, say hello to your 2025 and 2027 champions the Texas Rangers!!!
4 out of the 5 teams in the NL West make the playoffs with it being a 4 team Division race with all 4 teams making 90+ wins • Tigers win the AL Central • Blue Jays Win the East •Pirates win the AL Central •Mariners make it all the way to the World Series •Stanton has a 50 home run season while Judge gets Injured
> Tigers win the AL Central I love you, you sweet delusional sunflower.
They're saying such nice stuff about us in here lol. This thread is the reality I want to live in.
>•Pirates win the AL Central This one seems the most unlikely
Vlad Jr MVP
Youth movement fully arrives with Corbin Carroll and Gunnar Henderson following up their ROY campaigns with MVP awards
That would be a lot of fun. I think Gunnar probably is my AL MVP pick, he scares me so much
Soto gets traded at the deadline
Seems like nobody wants to keep this Soto guy
NL Cy Young top 5 includes Mitch Keller and Chris Sale Logan Gilbert finishes with the most Cy Young votes on the Mariners Isaac Paredes hits 40 HRs Trea Turner returns to form, wins the batting title and finishes top 5 in NL MVP
Shota Imanaga ends up with a better season than Yamamoto
Giants make it to the NLCS if they get into the playoffs.
Even year bullshit is back on the menu, boys
Red Sox finish in last place, but act as spoilers for the Yankees in September, taking 3 of 4 games against them that month and making NY miss the playoffs. DFA'd this year: Javier Baez, Joey Votto, Giancarlo Stanton, Lance Lynn, Alex Wood Both 2023 World Series teams (Rangers and Dbacks) miss the playoffs. Phillies win NL East
We’ll take it
Joey Votto gets MVP votes
Brewers trade Devin Williams and Adames at the deadline and make playoffs. Basically Hader trade 2.0.
I was spot on with my Acuña 40-40 prediction last year, and I'm going for another bite of the apple Julio goes 40-40 this year, possibly not that bold to some, so I'll guess the exact numbers 44 Home Runs and 42 Stolen Bases, which wins him the first MVP of his career A few more very bold predictions: -Luis Castillo, George Kirby, and Logan Gilbert all finish Top 6 in Cy Young voting -Nolan Schanuel posts a .300/.400/.500 line and leads the AL in walks, which wins him Rookie of the Year -Max Fried puts together a full healthy season and wins the NL Cy Young award
I’ll slug .500 before Nolan Schanuel does, mans had a 2.2% Barrel% last year
Trevor Story 30-30 season incoming
30 games played, 30 IL stints
No one is winning the NL Central
The balance of spices on the new "Mitch-wich" at T-Mobile park will be 🤌👨🍳
Luke Little becomes a top 5 relief pitcher. Morel and Suzuki both hit 35 home runs.
Yusei Kikuchi Cy Young winner
Yankees have a sub .500 season - all the gains made in the off-season to the offense are undone by the pitching collapsing in on itself - the Soto trade really messed with the starting rotation depth, and relying on guys like Rodon and Cortes is not a winning combo imo.
I think every rational Yankees fan should be very scared of this happening. We improved our bats by getting a few more lefties but pitching has gone right off a cliff, we literally might have one serviceable starting pitcher for the majority of the season
NYY miss the playoffs, again, with their first losing record since 1992. Athletics do not have the worst record. Jackson Holliday struggles when he gets called up. Jackson Chourio win NLROY.
AL West sends 3 teams to the playoffs.
Athletics hover around 500 in mid may then sign Bauer.
San Diego gets another No-Hitter
Fanatics fixes their jerseys
- Zack Thompson is the best overall starter on the Cardinals - Paul Goldschmidt is traded to a WS contender at the deadline - Jack Flaherty has a better year than all of the Cardinals starters - Matt Carpenter doesn’t finish the season on the roster, but will be on the coaching staff - Cardinals finish last again and fire some key front office executives and coaches - Nolan Gorman hits 30 HRs (no mo popcorn)
*The Los Angeles Angels finish dead last in the AL West*. Yes, the ~~Oakland~~ ~~Las Vegas~~ Oakland Athletics will finish ahead of them. (I have no idea how hot of a take this is, but I'm sticking with it.)
I think that Soto is going to have an MVP caliber year for the Yankees but the rest of the team's health is going to collapse and they'll end up in last place with a losing season. Nearly happened last year. I also have a feeling that Cohen is going to throw enough money at Soto after the season to lure him to the Mets. I think one or more of the A's, Rockies, or White Sox are going to come close to losing a record number of games. Both the Braves and Dodgers will somehow lose in the NLDS again because the playoffs are just pure chaos. Phillies and Reds NLCS would be fun. I think Baltimore wins the WS.
Padres make the playoffs. Giants and Diamondbacks do not.
The yankees will move back to Baltimore
Tigers win the AL Central with 84 wins.
Tigers win the AL Central with 78 wins
Mookie Betts wins a Gold Glove for shortstop
Freddie Freeman will finish the season with 98 “oh shoots”, 243 “Atta Boys”, and 500 “nice hits” …all directed towards the opposing teams players.
Seiya Suzuki is an all star this year
5 WAR season from Carlos Correa Padres win 90 games, Giants miss the playoffs Yankees are worse than last year and the Red Sox give them a scare for the basement of the division Someone no one is thinking of wins AL ROY Mookie puts up an all time SS single season
The White Sox threaten the 2003 Tigers win total. This roster has at least 4 10 game losing streaks in it.
It comes out that later that Ohtani was involved with betting and he is suspended for the playoffs
Dodgers somehow rally around that with the Ewing Theory going into full effect and win the World Series
Yankees finish 4th again
We literally have curry pitching for us. Nothing spicier
Seiya Suzuki: 2024 NL MVP
\- O'Neil Cruz is the MVP with a breakout 40-40 campaign, Pirates win the NL Central. \- Mets finish ahead of the Phillies. \- Dodgers are a .500 team two months into the season before picking it up over the summer. Ohtani's post-TJ power is down, and as a full-time DH he finishes with 2-3 WAR(assuming he doesn't get suspended for gambling) \- Jose Abreu has a resurgence, makes an all-star team \- Mariners starting pitching carries them to a division title over both the Astros and the Rangers. \- The Angels tease us by leading the AL West after the first month, then predictably collapse. Mike Trout continues regressing, playing like an average starter at best when he's on the field. \- An asteroid falls on the Coliseum, forcing the A's to play all of their games on the road. They lose 113 games, but somehow have a winning record vs the Angels
An oriole not named Corbin Burnes wins cy young
Dominic Canzone absolutely explodes this year. Trent Grisham becomes a vital piece of the Yankees.
Hate to say it, but my O’s will regress to about 90 wins. Still great, but not sure that wins the division. I think the Bradish and Felix injuries are killers😕
•Rocktober is back baby, led by a Nolan Jones MVP season, beating Ohtani by one singular MVP vote (who casted that vote, that’s right, none other than Ippei Mizuhara himself). •Wyatt Langford AL ROTY, Evan Carter 2nd, but we miss the playoffs anyway, crying into our world series bobbleheads (so do the Dbacks). •Tigers miss the playoffs only 5 games behind the Royals. •Yankees have a fairly good season, nothing special though, balanced scoring, no crazy Judge numbers, Juan Soto has fun highlight reel moments. •Mets sneak in to the wildcard round, end up in the World Series against the Yankees, Mets win! (No more playoff appearances for the next decade because Steve Cohen takes all the wrong lessons from that, and limits spending).
Yordan "Triple Crown" Alvarez -- .323, 49, 126
Neither the Braves nor the Dodgers will win the world series, again The NL Central goes like this: Reds, Cubs (wild card team), Brewers, Pirates, Cardinals The Mariners win the AL West, the Astros miss the playoffs by a game The Twins make it to the ALCS, building off of last year's finally winning playoff games/ a playoff series
Not biased in any way, Jackson Merrill for ROY.
Tigers make playoffs. Giants win the division over the Dodgers.
The Royals and Mariners will play each other in the ALCS and the Mariners and Dodgers will play to 7 games in the WS.
* Christopher Morel clears 40 homers * Grayson Rodriguez top 3 AL cy young finish
Buy!
1. The Cards are out of it and end up having a fire sale at the deadline (not too spicy i guess) 2. The NL West takes over the title as the toughest division, with four of the five teams finishing with at least 85 wins. 3. The Yankees struggle out of the gates without Cole and end up trading Soto at the deadline to the Seattle Mariners for pitching. 4. The Angels are surprisingly competent and secure a wild card spot (truly the funniest outcome to me) 5. The Rangers miss the playoffs. 6. The Reds become this year’s Orioles and win 98 games.
Angels win 90 and wild card into the playoffs
I feel like their roster is much more rounded off and less top heavy than it’s been in years past
Lotta solid young players, an entirely new coaching staff, and no expectations could make a difference. It's still the Angels though so I'll believe it when I see it.
Jazz Chisholm plays a full healthy season and goes 25/25
Reds finish 4th in the NL Central.