With the season starting tomorrow I decided to forego trying to predict opening day lineups this year since I did so bad last year. But I will take a chance at predicting how the playoffs will look this year at the end.
Also edited this from earlier. Looked it over some more and analyzed the Phillies some more as they were my pick to win the nl east. Reserved the right to change my picks seeing as the season hasn't started yet!
AL playoff picture:
AL East: Boston Red Sox
AL Central: Cleveland Indians
AL West: Houston Astros
AL wild card 1: New York Yankees
AL wild card 2: Los Angeles Angels
NL playoff picture:
NL East: Washington Nationals
NL Central: Milwaukee Brewers
NL West: Los Angeles Dodgers
NL Wild card 1: New York Mets
NL Wild card 2: Chicago Cubs
My mets always make me nervous but you never know. Maybe on a whim with the angels. That AL West will be pretty strong but something has to give with the Angels. They have the best player in baseball!
Cardinals and Braves will be good too but I think they'll fall short.
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Friday, February 8, 2019
New League...proposal
If MLB decides to go with the universal DH then there is no point to extend the travel and mix everyone up. Why not then minimize travel and fatigue of the players and make things easier? Might as well.
You could throw everyone into one big league and then do some sort of top 8 teams in the league at the end get put into a bracket similar to NBA or college bracket and play from there.
The idea I think would be a major mix up to leagues and divisions but keep to that system. Probably still call the Leagues American and National but the divisions within would have to change. Here i'll delve into an example.
Still 3 divisions with the 2 wild cards...
Let's say we call this the National League...
Northeast division:
Boston Red Sox
New York Mets
New Yankees
Philadelphia Phillies
Pittsburgh Pirates
Atlantic Coast division:
Miami Marlins
Tampa Bay Rays
Atlanta Braves
Washington Nationals
Baltimore Orioles
Central division:
Toronto Blue Jays
Cleveland Indians
Cincinnati Reds
Detroit Tigers
Chicago White Sox
Then we'll get the American League:
Mid West Division:
Milwaukee Brewers
Chicago Cubs
St. Louis Cardinals
Kansas Royals
Minnesota Twins
South/West Division:
Texas Rangers
Houston Astros
Colorado Rockies
Arizona Diamondbacks
San Diego Padres
Pacific Coast Division:
Seattle Mariners
Oakland Athletics
San Francisco Giants
Los Angeles Dodgers
Los Angeles Angels
Of course some teams are on borders and are tougher to place such as Colorado. East coast teams are tough to divy up. But here's a rough layout of how they should do it cause whats the point of having teams travel so far when all the teams are playing the same with the DH and everything?
Let me know what you think
You could throw everyone into one big league and then do some sort of top 8 teams in the league at the end get put into a bracket similar to NBA or college bracket and play from there.
The idea I think would be a major mix up to leagues and divisions but keep to that system. Probably still call the Leagues American and National but the divisions within would have to change. Here i'll delve into an example.
Still 3 divisions with the 2 wild cards...
Let's say we call this the National League...
Northeast division:
Boston Red Sox
New York Mets
New Yankees
Philadelphia Phillies
Pittsburgh Pirates
Atlantic Coast division:
Miami Marlins
Tampa Bay Rays
Atlanta Braves
Washington Nationals
Baltimore Orioles
Central division:
Toronto Blue Jays
Cleveland Indians
Cincinnati Reds
Detroit Tigers
Chicago White Sox
Then we'll get the American League:
Mid West Division:
Milwaukee Brewers
Chicago Cubs
St. Louis Cardinals
Kansas Royals
Minnesota Twins
South/West Division:
Texas Rangers
Houston Astros
Colorado Rockies
Arizona Diamondbacks
San Diego Padres
Pacific Coast Division:
Seattle Mariners
Oakland Athletics
San Francisco Giants
Los Angeles Dodgers
Los Angeles Angels
Of course some teams are on borders and are tougher to place such as Colorado. East coast teams are tough to divy up. But here's a rough layout of how they should do it cause whats the point of having teams travel so far when all the teams are playing the same with the DH and everything?
Let me know what you think
Thursday, February 7, 2019
NL to add the DH?! :(
So the MLB and player's union are pushing or talking about some new rules and proposals...
1) Another idea is mound visits from 6 to 4. 6 is fine. Let's not get crazy now.
2) 3 batter minimum for a relief pitcher. I like this one. Sometimes with the relief specialists it gets a bit ridiculous.
3) Expanding the rosters to 26 and then 28 in September. I love this idea! 40 man in September gets absolutely ridiculous
4) Extra innings changes... Apparently there is a thought that if a game gets to the 10th or 11th inning that the teams will then start with a runner on second base. I don't know how i feel about this. It's interesting to say the least but let's stop messing with this beautiful game!
5) 20 second pitch clock... There's a lot of things that need to be hashed out on this one though i'm okay with it. Some of these pitchers take forever!
6) The big one is the player's union is pushing for a universal DH... its unfortunately inevitable. I don't like it at all! I'm a big proponent of the separate leagues, 1 with DH and 1 without. It makes everything unique. It makes inter league and playoffs interesting to see how the opposition can adjust. I'm not looking forward to this day.
Though thinking as a met's fan maybe with the DH we would have been more in on Harper or Machado this off season. Could slide Cano into a DH... I don't know...
If the entire MLB goes to DH then why have 2 leagues? Why have 3 divisions in 2 leagues? Honestly what's the point then? You could still have 2 leagues and 3 divisions each but if everyone is in on the DH then there is no uniqueness and therefore we may as well realign divisions and leagues in order to cut down on travel. Only makes sense at that point...
1) Another idea is mound visits from 6 to 4. 6 is fine. Let's not get crazy now.
2) 3 batter minimum for a relief pitcher. I like this one. Sometimes with the relief specialists it gets a bit ridiculous.
3) Expanding the rosters to 26 and then 28 in September. I love this idea! 40 man in September gets absolutely ridiculous
4) Extra innings changes... Apparently there is a thought that if a game gets to the 10th or 11th inning that the teams will then start with a runner on second base. I don't know how i feel about this. It's interesting to say the least but let's stop messing with this beautiful game!
5) 20 second pitch clock... There's a lot of things that need to be hashed out on this one though i'm okay with it. Some of these pitchers take forever!
6) The big one is the player's union is pushing for a universal DH... its unfortunately inevitable. I don't like it at all! I'm a big proponent of the separate leagues, 1 with DH and 1 without. It makes everything unique. It makes inter league and playoffs interesting to see how the opposition can adjust. I'm not looking forward to this day.
Though thinking as a met's fan maybe with the DH we would have been more in on Harper or Machado this off season. Could slide Cano into a DH... I don't know...
If the entire MLB goes to DH then why have 2 leagues? Why have 3 divisions in 2 leagues? Honestly what's the point then? You could still have 2 leagues and 3 divisions each but if everyone is in on the DH then there is no uniqueness and therefore we may as well realign divisions and leagues in order to cut down on travel. Only makes sense at that point...
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