{"id":23755,"date":"2026-03-25T04:42:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T10:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=23755"},"modified":"2026-03-16T15:48:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T21:48:16","slug":"2026-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/2026-predictions\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/balls-endofseason.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15199\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/balls-endofseason.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/balls-endofseason.jpg 504w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/balls-endofseason-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/a>With the Yankees and Giants on track to open the 2026 season tonight on Netflix and the rest of the league scheduled to follow suit tomorrow, it is time, for the 16th consecutive year, to look into my crystal ball and make my picks for the division, league, and major award winners for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n<h3>American League<\/h3>\n<p><strong>East<\/strong>: Blue Jays<\/p>\n<p><strong>Central<\/strong>: Tigers<\/p>\n<p><strong>West<\/strong>: Mariners<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wild Cards:<\/strong> Yankees, Red Sox, Astros<\/p>\n<p><strong>AL Champion:<\/strong> Tigers<\/p>\n<p><b>Cy Young:<\/b> Tarik Skubal<\/p>\n<p><strong>MVP:<\/strong>\u00a0Julio Rodriguez<\/p>\n<h3>National League<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>East<\/strong>: Mets<\/p>\n<p><strong>Central<\/strong>: Cubs<\/p>\n<p><strong>West<\/strong>: Dodgers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wild Cards:<\/strong> Brewers, Phillies, Diamondbacks<\/p>\n<p><strong>NL Champion:<\/strong> Dodgers<\/p>\n<p><b>Cy Young:<\/b> Zac Gallen<\/p>\n<p><strong>MVP:<\/strong> Shohei Ohtani<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Yankees and Giants on track to open the 2026 season tonight on Netflix and the rest of the league scheduled to follow suit tomorrow, it is time, for the 16th consecutive year, to look into my crystal ball and make my picks for the division, league, and major award winners for the upcoming [&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":[113,119,121,120,122,116,256,10221,124,261,1642,254,258,8049,11598,230,51,10794],"class_list":["post-23755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-astros","tag-blue-jays","tag-brewers","tag-cubs","tag-diamondbacks","tag-dodgers","tag-giants","tag-julio-rodriguez","tag-mariners","tag-mets","tag-netflix","tag-phillies","tag-red-sox","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-tarik-skubal","tag-tigers","tag-yankees","tag-zac-gallen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23755","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=23755"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23995,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23755\/revisions\/23995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}