{"id":17789,"date":"2022-04-06T06:05:43","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T12:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=17789"},"modified":"2022-04-03T14:21:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T20:21:39","slug":"2022-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/2022-predictions\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 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 99-day lockout and a truncated spring training schedule, the 2022 baseball season is finally scheduled to kick off tomorrow with a slate of games.\u00a0 For the twelfth consecutive year, I\u2019ve looked into the crystal ball to make my picks for the upcoming season, including an additional Wild Card pick for each league.<\/p>\n<h3>American League<\/h3>\n<p><strong>East<\/strong>: Blue Jays<\/p>\n<p><strong>Central<\/strong>: White Sox<\/p>\n<p><strong>West<\/strong>: Astros<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wild Cards:<\/strong> Yankees, Angels, Red Sox<\/p>\n<p><strong>AL Champion:<\/strong> Yankees<\/p>\n<p><b>Cy Young:<\/b>\u00a0Lucas Giolito<\/p>\n<p><strong>MVP:<\/strong> Vladimir Guerrero Jr.<\/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> Padres, Mets, Phillies<\/p>\n<p><strong>NL Champion:<\/strong>\u00a0Dodgers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cy Young:<\/strong> Walker Buehler<\/p>\n<p><strong>MVP:<\/strong> Mookie Betts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 99-day lockout and a truncated spring training schedule, the 2022 baseball season is finally scheduled to kick off tomorrow with a slate of games.\u00a0 For the twelfth consecutive year, I\u2019ve looked into the crystal ball to make my picks for the upcoming season, including an additional Wild Card pick for each league. American League [&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":[9974,110,113,119,125,57,116,7032,261,7000,231,254,258,8471,8057,49,51],"class_list":["post-17789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-2022-lockout","tag-angels","tag-astros","tag-blue-jays","tag-braves","tag-cardinals","tag-dodgers","tag-lucas-giolito","tag-mets","tag-mookie-betts","tag-padres","tag-phillies","tag-red-sox","tag-vladimir-guerrero-jr","tag-walker-buehler","tag-white-sox","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17789","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=17789"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18927,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17789\/revisions\/18927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}