{"id":9739,"date":"2016-04-03T10:34:01","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T16:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=9739"},"modified":"2016-04-02T20:13:57","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T02:13:57","slug":"2016-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/2016-predictions\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/baseballs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3693\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/baseballs.jpg\" alt=\"MLB: Cincinnati Reds at Los Angeles Dodgers\" width=\"365\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/baseballs.jpg 365w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/baseballs-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><\/a>The 2016 baseball season is scheduled to\u00a0kick off today, with 3 games scheduled for the first time. \u00a0For the sixth consecutive\u00a0year, I&#8217;ve looked into the crystal ball to make my picks for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n<h3>American League<\/h3>\n<p><strong>East<\/strong>: Blue Jays<\/p>\n<p><strong>Central<\/strong>:\u00a0Indians<\/p>\n<p><strong>West<\/strong>: Rangers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wild Cards:<\/strong>\u00a0Red Sox, White Sox<\/p>\n<p><strong>AL Champion:<\/strong>\u00a0Blue Jays<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cy Young:\u00a0<\/strong>Chris Sale<\/p>\n<p><strong>MVP:<\/strong>\u00a0Mike Trout<\/p>\n<h3>National\u00a0League<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>East<\/strong>: Nationals<\/p>\n<p><strong>Central<\/strong>: Cubs<\/p>\n<p><strong>West<\/strong>: Giants<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wild Cards:<\/strong>\u00a0Pirates, Dodgers<\/p>\n<p><strong>NL Champion:<\/strong>\u00a0Pirates<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cy Young:<\/strong>\u00a0Madison Bumgarner<\/p>\n<p><strong>MVP:<\/strong>\u00a0Andrew McCuthchen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2016 baseball season is scheduled to\u00a0kick off today, with 3 games scheduled for the first time. \u00a0For the sixth consecutive\u00a0year, I&#8217;ve looked into the crystal ball to make my picks for the upcoming season. American League East: Blue Jays Central:\u00a0Indians West: Rangers Wild Cards:\u00a0Red Sox, White Sox AL Champion:\u00a0Blue Jays Cy Young:\u00a0Chris Sale MVP:\u00a0Mike [&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":[4113,119,574,120,116,256,115,6056,2381,117,112,111,258,49],"class_list":["post-9739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-andrew-mccutchen","tag-blue-jays","tag-chris-sale","tag-cubs","tag-dodgers","tag-giants","tag-indians","tag-madison-bumgarner","tag-mike-trout","tag-nationals","tag-pirates","tag-rangers","tag-red-sox","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9739","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=9739"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10109,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9739\/revisions\/10109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}