Playoff Predictions

Before I get to my baseball playoff predictions, let’s take a look at how I did with my preseason predictions from my post on April 6, 2009:

AL East:

Boston

New York (WC)

Tampa Bay

Baltimore

Toronto

AL Central

Cleveland

Minnesota

Kansas City

Chicago

Detroit

AL West

Los Angeles

Oakland

Texas

Seattle

Playoffs: Boston over Los Angeles; New York over Cleveland; Boston over New York

NL East:

New York

Philadelphia

Atlanta

Florida

Washington

NL Central:

Chicago

St. Louis

Cincinnati

Milwaukee

Houston

Pittsburgh

 NL West

Los Angeles

Arizona (WC)

San Francisco

Colorado

San Diego

Playoffs:

New York over Arizona; Los Angeles over Chicago; Los Angeles over New York

World Series: Boston over Los Angeles

Ok, so I didn’t do that well. I did better in the AL. I had both Boston and the Yankees making the playoffs, albeit I flip flopped the actual finish, as the Sox are the wild card and the Yanks won the division.  I totally f’d up the Central, predicting the Indians 1st and Detroit last. I had Minnesota 2nd, so if they lose the one game playoff tonight, I’ll have that one right.  I correctly predicted that the Angles would win the AL West, but I gave Oakland way too much credit and Texas not enough.  As far as my AL playoff predictions, I have the Red Sox over the Angels, which could obviously happen, and the Yankees winning their first round matchup (albeit against the wrong opponent). My prediction of Boston over New York in the ALCS still has a good shot of happening.

In the NL, I was a total f*cktard. I only correctly predicted only one playoff team- the Dodgers, and had the Mets and Cubs winning their divisions and Arizona (!!!) making it in as the wild card. Juusst missed that one, as Arizona finished 70-92, last in the West, 25 games out.

I have the Dodgers making the World Series, which is still a possibility.

So what do I think now? I’m going to change things up and go as follows:

AL:  Yankees over Tigers/Twins in 4 and Red Sox over Angels in 4.

Yankees over Red Sox in 7.

NL:  Cards over Dodgers in 4 and Rockies over Phillies in 5.

Cards over Rockies in 6.

World Series: Yankees over Cards in 7.

I probably just jinxed the Yanks and they’ll lose in the first round, but screw it.  This is their best team since 2003 and they have the mojo working this year.