{"id":20049,"date":"2023-03-29T04:36:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T10:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=20049"},"modified":"2023-03-28T16:51:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T22:51:44","slug":"2023-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/2023-predictions\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/baseball.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11752\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/baseball.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"378\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/baseball.jpg 378w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/baseball-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/baseball-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\" \/><\/a>After three straight seasons of strange occurrences, the 2023 baseball season looks to kick off tomorrow without any COVID or lockout effects in sight.\u00a0 For the thirteenth 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>: Guardians<\/p>\n<p><strong>West<\/strong>: Astros<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wild Cards:<\/strong> Blue Jays, Mariners, White Sox<\/p>\n<p><strong>AL Champion:<\/strong> Yankees<\/p>\n<p><b>Cy Young:<\/b> Alek Manoah<\/p>\n<p><strong>MVP:<\/strong> Julio Rodriguez<\/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> Padres, Braves, Brewers<\/p>\n<p><strong>NL Champion:<\/strong> Padres<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cy Young:<\/strong> Walker Buehler<\/p>\n<p><strong>MVP:<\/strong> Juan Soto<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After three straight seasons of strange occurrences, the 2023 baseball season looks to kick off tomorrow without any COVID or lockout effects in sight.\u00a0 For the thirteenth consecutive year, I\u2019ve looked into the crystal ball to make my picks for the upcoming season. American League East: Yankees Central: Guardians West: Astros Wild Cards: Blue Jays, [&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":[10219,113,119,125,121,57,8844,116,9687,8056,10221,124,231,254,8057,49,51],"class_list":["post-20049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-alek-manoah","tag-astros","tag-blue-jays","tag-braves","tag-brewers","tag-cardinals","tag-corona-virus","tag-dodgers","tag-guardians","tag-juan-soto","tag-julio-rodriguez","tag-mariners","tag-padres","tag-phillies","tag-walker-buehler","tag-white-sox","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20049","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=20049"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20149,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20049\/revisions\/20149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}