{"id":17192,"date":"2021-03-30T08:35:15","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T14:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=17192"},"modified":"2021-03-28T10:33:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T16:33:01","slug":"2021-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/2021-predictions\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/baseballs4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11754\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/baseballs4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/baseballs4.jpg 432w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/baseballs4-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a>After a year of pandemic-related shut downs and a truncated 60-game schedule last year, the 2021 baseball season is scheduled to kick off on Thursday with a full slate of games and some percentage of fans back in the stands.\u00a0 For the eleventh 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>:\u00a0Twins<\/p>\n<p><strong>West<\/strong>: Astros<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wild Cards:<\/strong>\u00a0White Sox, Blue Jays<\/p>\n<p><strong>AL Champion:<\/strong>\u00a0Yankees<\/p>\n<p><b>Cy Young:<\/b>\u00a0Lucas Giolito<\/p>\n<p><strong>MVP:<\/strong>\u00a0Aaron Judge<\/p>\n<h3>National\u00a0League<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>East<\/strong>: Braves<\/p>\n<p><strong>Central<\/strong>: Cardinals<\/p>\n<p><strong>West<\/strong>: Dodgers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wild Cards:<\/strong>\u00a0Padres, Mets<\/p>\n<p><strong>NL Champion:<\/strong>\u00a0Dodgers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cy Young:<\/strong> Walker Buehler<\/p>\n<p><strong>MVP:<\/strong>\u00a0Fernando Tatis Jr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a year of pandemic-related shut downs and a truncated 60-game schedule last year, the 2021 baseball season is scheduled to kick off on Thursday with a full slate of games and some percentage of fans back in the stands.\u00a0 For the eleventh consecutive year, I\u2019ve looked into the crystal ball to make my picks [&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":[7635,113,119,125,57,8844,116,9341,7032,261,231,118,8057,49,51],"class_list":["post-17192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-aaron-judge","tag-astros","tag-blue-jays","tag-braves","tag-cardinals","tag-corona-virus","tag-dodgers","tag-fernando-tatis-jr","tag-lucas-giolito","tag-mets","tag-padres","tag-twins","tag-walker-buehler","tag-white-sox","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17192","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=17192"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17244,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17192\/revisions\/17244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}