{"id":15217,"date":"2020-07-23T09:40:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T15:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=15217"},"modified":"2020-07-19T10:54:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T16:54:06","slug":"2020-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/2020-predictions\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 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>After months of delay due to the corona virus, the 2020 baseball season is finally scheduled to kick off today with two games, followed by a full slate of games featuring the remaining teams tomorrow.\u00a0 For the tenth consecutive year, I\u2019ve looked into the crystal ball to make my picks for the upcoming season.\u00a0 Although, given the circumstances of this season, this is more of a fool&#8217;s errand than usual.<\/p>\n<h3>American League<\/h3>\n<p><strong>East<\/strong>: Yankees<\/p>\n<p><strong>Central<\/strong>:\u00a0Twins<\/p>\n<p><strong>West<\/strong>: Astros<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wild Cards:<\/strong>\u00a0White Sox, Rays<\/p>\n<p><strong>AL Champion:<\/strong>\u00a0Yankees<\/p>\n<p><b>Cy Young:<\/b> Blake Snell<\/p>\n<p><strong>MVP:<\/strong>\u00a0Yoan Moncada<\/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>: Dodgers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wild Cards:<\/strong> Mets, Cubs<\/p>\n<p><strong>NL Champion:<\/strong>\u00a0Dodgers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cy Young:<\/strong> Jacob deGrom<\/p>\n<p><strong>MVP:<\/strong> Paul Goldschmidt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of delay due to the corona virus, the 2020 baseball season is finally scheduled to kick off today with two games, followed by a full slate of games featuring the remaining teams tomorrow.\u00a0 For the tenth consecutive year, I\u2019ve looked into the crystal ball to make my picks for the upcoming season.\u00a0 Although, [&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":[113,8046,57,8844,120,116,5126,261,4112,254,255,118,49,51,7027],"class_list":["post-15217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-astros","tag-blake-snell","tag-cardinals","tag-corona-virus","tag-cubs","tag-dodgers","tag-jacob-degrom","tag-mets","tag-paul-goldschmidt","tag-phillies","tag-rays","tag-twins","tag-white-sox","tag-yankees","tag-yoan-moncada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15217","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=15217"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16402,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15217\/revisions\/16402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}