Cardinals to face the NL Wild Card victor, Pirates or Cubs, this Friday evening at Busch Stadium. Two guys can be stalking around the octagon for a couple of minutes, and you’re afraid to take your eyes off the screen for a second because the fight could be over in one swing. Four teams in each league is enough. Having said that, the last two months of the season showed the Mets at their very best and with a special kind of magic that can not be explained. He also supplanted Starlin Castro at shortstop toward the end of the season, with Starlin moving to second base. And now in my honest opinion the best series of the whole postseason, we have the Cardinals against the Metropolitans.
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This is more just for fun to see which teams the algorithms see as being most potent entering the postseason. Plus, let’s not forget the added entertainment value of unprovoked attacks by Jonathan Papelbon on his teammates’ necks and Matt Williams doing absolutely everything wrong.
LC: Yankees and Cubs. The LCS has been a similar seven-game series since 1985. The Blue Jays are in a win-now mode.
Edwin Encarnacion has 39 home runs. I’d sure love to find out. The St Louis Cardinals against the 6. The Dodgers aren’t ideal because that means a team bought its way to a championship.
Joe Blanton, RP: He retired from baseball in 2014, and then he unretired in 2015 and began the year with the Royals.
The Astros have come a long way from losing 100 games three-straight season (2011-13), to now going over. Yes, the “evil” Yankees.
KERI: You know, it will be interesting to see. It’s not the fans are distracted by the success of their football team or anything. Will the Mets high powered offense resurrect itself in time? But after this wild-card game, one of those teams will be going home – doesn’t seem fair. It’s criminal that two of the three best teams in baseball will be ousted after the Divisional series, especially since it will be at the hand of a division rival.
The Redbirds are starting to get into the same stratosphere as the Yankees, where they win so much that fans are turned off by them. The Astros will now advance to face off against the Kansas City Royals in the American League Division Series. But they rose quickly once all of the pieces were in place.
Can A-Rod do the business for the Yankees? As what’s become a tradition on SportsMix with other leagues – and now, for the first time in MLB – I’m putting out my playoff picks, even if what I think doesn’t matter. Isn’t that the saying?
SIEGEL: Pirates haven’t won a World Series since 1979. West Coast rappers better be prepared for a Drake diss track. Can the Royals handle the burden of great expectations and make it back to the World Series? Or it could not. The Rangers were so good down the stretch, but go matched up against a tough opponent. Are we getting the best from both teams? No. Who will it be this time? The Rangers and Angels are playing in Texas. It really is the model franchise in baseball. Regular season is 162 to gather wins. The Yankees have been a. 500 team since the summer. Major League Baseball Network’s ALDS game telecasts will also feature enhanced audio at each base, plus Phantom and X-Mo camera technology to provide dramatically increased resolution and clarity to replays. This is 2015, not 1985.
RA Dickey of the Blue Jays. If he does play, I imagine it will be as a pinch-hitter for the pitcher’s spot or as a defensive replacement it/when Kris Bryant moves from LF back to his normal 3B.
After the Cubs rode Jake Arrieta’s red-hot momentum, the field is set in the NL. If I had a vote for the NL Cy Young Award, I would vote for Arrieta. And joining me to talk about all this is Grantland’s Jonah Keri. And not just because of the exciting bats. However, when it comes to the playoffs, if that happens to be the price of admission, then so be it. After all, they go big in Texas. Winning your division in this format just ensures you make the playoffs, whether you are in the top five or not.
Over my teen years, however, baseball was replaced by basketball, football and boxing. And maybe Arrieta is that unhittable.
Whatever helps keep your hope alive, just know, it doesn’t matter. And for the Pirates, Gerrit Cole will be an excellent matchup for him. They have primarily won games by bludgeoning their opponents with home runs (230 of them, second to the Jays). Who bested them? That would only be the Cubs.
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2013 – Shane Victorino’s infield single snapped a seventh-inning tie and journeyman Craig Breslow gave Boston a huge boost out of the bullpen, sending the Red Sox into the AL championship series with a 3-1 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays. Put up three more ginormous video boards? There’s no question they’re underdogs. Since we’re all about being helpful, we made a decision to pass along the info.
