{"id":13601,"date":"2017-04-03T09:30:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T13:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=13601"},"modified":"2017-04-03T09:30:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T13:30:01","slug":"obligatory-2017-prediction-piece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=13601","title":{"rendered":"Obligatory 2017 Prediction Piece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see that everyone&#8217;s already jumped the gun on predictions in the comments of the previous post. \u00a0So I&#8217;ll put it out here:<\/p>\n<p>Predictions for each division:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NL East: Washington again but its close<\/li>\n<li>NL Central: Cubs by a fair margin<\/li>\n<li>NL West: Dodgers by a hair<\/li>\n<li>NL Wild Cards: I think its San Francisco and the NY Mets again.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I know this is exactly what happened last year &#8230; but what has really changed in the NL? \u00a0Miami is significantly weakened from last year, Philly is still a couple years away, and Atlanta&#8217;s rotation looks pretty good &#8230; if the year was 2005. \u00a0I do think Washington holds off the Mets for the division, simply because the Mets&#8217; arms just can&#8217;t hold up like ours can.<\/p>\n<p>So, it seems to me we&#8217;re going to have precisely the same NLDS again. \u00a0Us versus the Dodgers. \u00a0Can we figure out how to beat them this time?<\/p>\n<p>NL Champs: hard to root against the Cubs again.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AL East: Boston<\/li>\n<li>AL Central: Cleveland by a lot<\/li>\n<li>AL West: Houston<\/li>\n<li>AL Wild Cards: Toronto and Texas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More of the same but some shuffling of the deck chairs. \u00a0The Orioles take a step back and Houston takes a big step forward.<\/p>\n<p>AL Champs: Cleveland again.<\/p>\n<p>So we have a WS rematch. \u00a0And this time, Cleveland comes out on top thanks to a couple of untimely injuries with the Cubs (perhaps to their aging pitching squad).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see that everyone&#8217;s already jumped the gun on predictions in the comments of the previous post. \u00a0So I&#8217;ll put it out here: Predictions for each division: NL East: Washington again but its close NL Central: Cubs by a fair margin NL West: Dodgers by a hair NL Wild Cards: I think its San Francisco [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonnatsbaseball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13603,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13601\/revisions\/13603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}