{"id":13404,"date":"2018-03-28T07:10:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T13:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=13404"},"modified":"2018-03-28T19:38:10","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T01:38:10","slug":"2018-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/2018-predictions\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/all-time-playoff-team-records\/baseballs3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8806\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8806\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/baseballs3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"405\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/baseballs3.jpg 405w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/baseballs3-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/a>The 2018 baseball season is scheduled to kick off tomorrow, the earliest date in history (not counting special series outside of North America) with a full slate of games featuring all 30 teams.\u00a0 For the eighth consecutive year, I\u2019ve looked into the crystal ball to make my picks for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n<h3>American League<\/h3>\n<p><strong>East<\/strong>: Yankees<\/p>\n<p><strong>Central<\/strong>:\u00a0Indians<\/p>\n<p><strong>West<\/strong>: Astros<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wild Cards:<\/strong>\u00a0Red Sox, Angels<\/p>\n<p><strong>AL Champion:<\/strong>\u00a0Yankees<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cy Young:\u00a0<\/strong>Chris Sale<\/p>\n<p><strong>MVP:<\/strong>\u00a0Giancarlo Stanton<\/p>\n<h3>National\u00a0League<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>East<\/strong>: Nationals<\/p>\n<p><strong>Central<\/strong>: Cubs<\/p>\n<p><strong>West<\/strong>: Dodgers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wild Cards:<\/strong>\u00a0Rockies, Phillies<\/p>\n<p><strong>NL Champion:<\/strong>\u00a0Cubs<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cy Young:<\/strong>\u00a0Clayton Kershaw<\/p>\n<p><strong>MVP:<\/strong>\u00a0Bryce Harper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2018 baseball season is scheduled to kick off tomorrow, the earliest date in history (not counting special series outside of North America) with a full slate of games featuring all 30 teams.\u00a0 For the eighth consecutive year, I\u2019ve looked into the crystal ball to make my picks for the upcoming season. American League East: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[110,113,5914,574,154,120,116,5132,115,117,254,258,257,51],"class_list":["post-13404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-angels","tag-astros","tag-bryce-harper","tag-chris-sale","tag-clayton-kershaw","tag-cubs","tag-dodgers","tag-giancarlo-stanton","tag-indians","tag-nationals","tag-phillies","tag-red-sox","tag-rockies","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13404"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13505,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13404\/revisions\/13505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}