The 2017 Major League Baseball season is fast approaching and I have again decided to go out on several limbs and release my annual predictions. Last year I went 2 for 6 so hopefully I can up my game and improve on those numbers.
AL East
x - Boston
x - Toronto
New York
Baltimore
Tampa Bay
AL Central
x - Cleveland
x - Detroit 88-74
Kansas City
Chicago
Minnesota
Tampa Bay Rays fans are excited to finally be getting a new stadium, but what will happen to Tropicana Field? In a gesture of charity and good-will, the Rays plan to donate their lightly used stadium to the Boston Red Sox.
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. – Vahn Bozian and Steven Pico each homered and Mark Young threw six solid innings as the SDC baseball team defeated The Master's University 7-4 Friday afternoon.
I still remember the night I fell in love with the Cleveland Indians. Driving home from my brother's little league game, my dad turned on the radio and, for the first time in my life, I heard the voice of Tom Hamilton.
With Pelfrey being released and Daniel Stumpf not being on the roster - Moya going on waivers and JD hurt, and barring a last-minute trade....
As a lifelong Royals fan, although that isn't that long, the success of the team in 2014 and 2015 was probably the best time of my life from a fan perspective. The Chiefs were playing relatively well and looked like they were improving every year.
In 2016, the Rays posted a wRC+ of 98, ranking 12th out of the 30 teams in baseball. Their slugging ranked 13th and their wOBA ranked 19th. By many measurements, they were an extraordinarily average offense.
Given no one volunteered to be commissioner, I’ve stepped in as I’m keen to seen this happen. I’ve not done a H2H league before, though the general sentiment was to try this out, and using points seems was mentioned, and has intrigued me.
Four days now, sports fans, four days until the day. It is a day akin to Christmas Day, nay, better. On that day the best franchise known to man opens another season of the best sport ever contrived.
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The season is about to begin and with it comes everyone’s opinion on how their team will perform. Given this, I thought I would add my own input. The following are power rankings based on a projection system I created using projected team WAR (from Fangraphs combination of ZiPS and STEAMER).