{"id":14206,"date":"2019-03-27T09:57:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T15:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=14206"},"modified":"2019-03-24T09:00:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T15:00:31","slug":"2019-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/2019-predictions\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 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 2019 baseball season is scheduled to kick off tomorrow, at least the North American portion, with a full slate of games featuring all 30 teams.\u00a0 For the ninth 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> Astros<\/p>\n<p><b>Cy Young:<\/b> Justin Verlander<\/p>\n<p><strong>MVP:<\/strong>\u00a0George Springer<\/p>\n<h3>National\u00a0League<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>East<\/strong>: Phillies<\/p>\n<p><strong>Central<\/strong>: Cardinals<\/p>\n<p><strong>West<\/strong>: Rockies<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wild Cards:<\/strong> Dodgers, Nationals<\/p>\n<p><strong>NL Champion:<\/strong>\u00a0Cardinals<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cy Young:<\/strong> Jacob deGrom<\/p>\n<p><strong>MVP:<\/strong> Paul Goldschmidt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2019 baseball season is scheduled to kick off tomorrow, at least the North American portion, with a full slate of games featuring all 30 teams.\u00a0 For the ninth consecutive year, I\u2019ve looked into the crystal ball to make my picks for the upcoming season. American League East: Yankees Central:\u00a0Indians West: Astros Wild Cards:\u00a0Red Sox, [&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":[110,113,57,116,7984,115,5126,863,117,4112,254,258,257,51],"class_list":["post-14206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-angels","tag-astros","tag-cardinals","tag-dodgers","tag-george-springer","tag-indians","tag-jacob-degrom","tag-justin-verlander","tag-nationals","tag-paul-goldschmidt","tag-phillies","tag-red-sox","tag-rockies","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14206","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=14206"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14934,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14206\/revisions\/14934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}