Pre-Spring Training MLB Season Predictions

[vegasbrewcrew1993]

Bored so why not? Let's see some predictions for fun!

 

2015 MLB Season

AL East

Boston Red Sox 95-67

Baltimore Orioles 85-77

Toronto Blue Jays 83-79

New York Yankees 81-81

Tampa Bay Rays 72-90

 

AL Central

Cleveland Indians 89-73

Chicago White Sox 88-74

Detroit Tigers 87-75

Kansas City Royals 77-85

Minnesota Twins 75-87

 

AL West

Seattle Mariners 96-66

Oakland Athletics 86-76

Los Angeles Angels 84-78

Texas Rangers 79-83

Houston Astros 74-88

 

NL East

Washington Nationals 101-61

Miami Marlins 85-77

New York Mets 83-79

Atlanta Braves 75-87

Philadelphia Phillies 66-96

 

NL Central

St. Louis Cardinals 93-69

Milwaukee Brewers 88-74

Pittsburgh Pirates 86-76

Cincinnati Reds 81-81

Chicago Cubs 79-83

 

NL West

Los Angeles Dodgers 98-64

San Diego Padres 90-72

San Francisco Giants 84-78

Colorado Rockies 68-94

Arizona Diamondbacks 67-95

 

AL Wild Card

Detroit Tigers 1

Chicago White Sox 0

 

NL Wild Card

Milwaukee Brewers 1

San Diego Padres 0

 

ALDS

Detroit Tigers 3

Seattle Mariners 2

 

Cleveland Indians 3

Boston Red Sox 2

 

NLDS

Milwaukee Brewers 1

Washington Nationals 3

 

St. Louis Cardinals 3

Los Angeles Dodgers 2

 

ALCS

Detroit Tigers 4

Cleveland Indians 2

 

NLCS

St. Louis Cardinals 4

Los Angeles Dodgers 3

 

2015 World Series

Detroit Tigers 1

St. Louis Cardinals 4

[SRB]

2015 MLB Season

AL East

New York Yankees

Baltimore Orioles

Boston Red Sox

Toronto Blue Jays

Tampa Bay Rays

 

AL Central

Chicago White Sox

Cleveland Indians

Kansas City Royals

Minnesota Twins

Detroit Tigers

 

AL West

Los Angeles Angels

Seattle Mariners

Houston Astros

Texas Rangers

Oakland Athletics

 

NL East

Washington Nationals

Miami Marlins

New York Mets

Philadelphia Phillies

Atlanta Braves

 

NL Central

Milwaukee Brewers

St. Louis Cardinals

Chicago Cubs

Pittsburgh Pirates

Cincinnati Reds

 

NL West

Los Angeles Dodgers

San Francisco Giants

San Diego Padres

Colorado Rockies

Arizona Diamondbacks

 

AL Wild Card

Cleveland Indians def. Baltimore Orioles

 

NL Wild Card

St. Louis Cardinals def. San Francisco Giants

 

ALDS

Chicago White Sox def. New York Yankees

 

Los Angeles Angels def. Cleveland Indians

 

NLDS

Milwaukee Brewers def. Los Angeles Dodgers

 

Washington Nationals def. St. Louis Cardinals

 

ALCS

Chicago White Sox def. Los Angeles Angels

 

NLCS

Milwaukee Brewers def. Washington Nationals

 

2015 World Series

Milwaukee Brewers def. Chicago White Sox (4-3)

[Bombers]

Wild Card

Mariners over Blue Jays

Brewers over Giants

 

ALDS

Mariners over Red Sox

Angels over Tigers

 

NLDS

Brewers over Dodgers

Nationals over Pirates

 

ALCS

Angels over Mariners

NLCS

Brewers over Nationals

 

2015 World Series

Brewers over Angels

 

Biggest flop: Padres. It's how it always works. Everyone pre-season darling. Look at what they all did! #Fail. It never works out that way. Or they will just win it all and throw pie in my face.

[vegasbrewcrew1993]

Certainly wouldn't complain if that's how things turned out lol

[lcbj68c]

I'll give my predictions below this, but I'm wondering why everybody has Milwaukee in the playoffs, let alone a few predicting a World Series run? This is the same team that minus a nice April played .470 for 5/6th's of the season that returns basically the same roster.

 

Anyhoo, if I'm laying in Vegas...

 

AL East - (2)Baltimore, (5) Boston, New York, Toronto, Tampa

AL Central - (3)Detroit, Cleveland, KC, Chicago, Minnesota

AL West - (1)Oakland, (4) Los Angeles, Seattle, Houston, Texas

NL East - (1)Washington, Florida, New York, Atlanta, Philadelphia

NL Central - (3) Saint Louis, Pittsburg, Chicago, Milwaukee (74-88), Cincinnati

NL West - (2)SanFrancisco, (4) Los Angeles, (5) San Diego, Colorado, Arizona

 

ALWC - Boston over Los Angeles

ALDS - Boston over Oakland, Baltimore over Detroit

ALCS - Boston over Baltimore

NLWC - Los Angeles over San Diego

NLDS - Washington over Los Angeles, SanFrancisco over Saint Louis

NLCS - Washington over SanFrancisco

WS - Boston over Washington in 6

[SRB]

I'll give my predictions below this, but I'm wondering why everybody has Milwaukee in the playoffs, let alone a few predicting a World Series run? This is the same team that minus a nice April played .470 for 5/6th's of the season that returns basically the same roster.

 

Any team looks bad if you take out their hot streaks. They went 20-8 with basically no contribution from the best player on the team (Ryan Braun), with a journeyman platoon at 1B, and with a black hole at SS.

 

It's a solid roster that can easily compete. Can't predict anything else in the preseason.

[pete]

It'd be interesting to take out the best 6th of a season for all teams and see what their records were. Its kind of the modus operandi of the Cards to be mediocre for long stretches. Have the Giants had a dominating season in a WS year? The powerhouses in the NL last season were the Nats and Dodgers.

 

I wouldn't call it the same team either.

[lcbj68c]

It wasn't my intention to remove their hot streak. The most telling argument to me is that they played .470 ball for 5/6th's of the year. Unfortunately, I think the talent assembled is a .470 baseball team.

[Ennder]

It wasn't my intention to remove their hot streak. The most telling argument to me is that they played .470 ball for 5/6th's of the year. Unfortunately, I think the talent assembled is a .470 baseball team.

 

 

That logic is awful though. They had 2 bad months and 1 good month, impossible to derive how good they actually are from that. It is just as easy to point to a healthy Brewers team being way over .500 and when injuries hit them hard in the 2nd half they fell apart. Who knows what is the truth. I mean over half the team had some nagging little injury in the 2nd half.

 

I think the Brewers are in the hunt for the wild card but I think all of the teams in the hunt for the wild card are somewhere between 70 and 90 wins, you just can't really predict baseball.

[Outlander]

They actually had two good months, 20-18 in March/April and 18-10 in June. The two bad months were real bad though. Depending on which 5/6 is used the first or last 5/6 then they were playing .537 ball the first 5/6. So the optimistic people can say the most telling argument to me is that they played .537 ball for 5/6th's of the year. Fortunately, I think the talent assembled is a .537 baseball team.

[pete]

It wasn't my intention to remove their hot streak. The most telling argument to me is that they played .470 ball for 5/6th's of the year.

 

Except the 2nd part is because you've done the first part. I'd guess 3/4 of all teams would have a .470 record by taking out their hot stretches, maybe more, including a bunch of playoff teams.

[Funketown]

'Tis the season for unbridled, irrational optimism.

 

Brewers 162 - 0

 

NLDS 3-0

NLCS 4-0

WS 4-0

 

St. Louis goes 0-162.