{"id":2089,"date":"2012-07-05T10:11:35","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T16:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=2089"},"modified":"2012-07-05T10:17:21","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T16:17:21","slug":"nostradamus-wept-al-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/nostradamus-wept-al-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Nostradamus Wept – AL Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

With 81 games in the books, we are officially at the halfway point of the 2012 season. \u00a0The so-called experts at Sports Illustrated made some pre-season predictions<\/a> that are looking a little off a this point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Team<\/th>\nWon<\/th>\nLost<\/th>\n\n

Predicted<\/p>\n

Wins<\/p>\n<\/th>\n

PredictedLosses<\/th>\nComments<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
AL East<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
New York Yankees<\/td>\n49<\/td>\n32<\/td>\n95<\/td>\n67<\/td>\n\n

After a slow-ish start, a long winning\u00a0streak moved the Yankees back into\u00a0first place despite an injury-ravaged\u00a0pitching staff.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Baltimore Orioles<\/td>\n44<\/td>\n37<\/td>\n63<\/td>\n99<\/td>\nOne of the surprises of the first half, theOrioles need only 19 second half wins to\u00a0match their predicted output.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tampa Bay Rays<\/td>\n43<\/td>\n39<\/td>\n92<\/td>\n70<\/td>\nTampa has continued to keep things togetherwhile once again losing Evan Longoria for\u00a0an extended period of time.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Boston Red Sox<\/td>\n42<\/td>\n40<\/td>\n91<\/td>\n71<\/td>\nAfter their collapse at the end of last season,the Red Sox have struggled to stay above .500\u00a0in the first half.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Toronto Blue Jays<\/td>\n42<\/td>\n40<\/td>\n85<\/td>\n77<\/td>\nThe Blue Jays were having a strong half beforelosing nearly their entire starting rotation in one\u00a0weeks time.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
AL Central<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chicago White Sox<\/td>\n44<\/td>\n37<\/td>\n67<\/td>\n95<\/td>\nWhile most people did not expect the White Soxto be as bad as SI did, nobody thought they would\u00a0be in first place at the halfway point.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cleveland \u00a0Indians<\/td>\n42<\/td>\n39<\/td>\n80<\/td>\n82<\/td>\nThe Indians have been right around where expected, a little over .500 instead of a little under.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Detroit Tigers<\/td>\n40<\/td>\n42<\/td>\n93<\/td>\n69<\/td>\nThe Tigers were expected to run away and hide in this division, but they have been unable to outhit their\u00a0poor pitching performance to date.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kansas City Royals<\/td>\n36<\/td>\n44<\/td>\n82<\/td>\n80<\/td>\nEric Hosmer’s sophomore slump has held back the developing Royals.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Minnesota Twins<\/td>\n35<\/td>\n46<\/td>\n72<\/td>\n90<\/td>\nCould this be the end of the Ron Gardenhire era? \u00a0The Twins are woefully bad for the second straight year.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
AL West<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Texas Rangers<\/td>\n50<\/td>\n32<\/td>\n94<\/td>\n68<\/td>\nAfter losing back-to-back World Series, the Rangers look to be stronger than ever.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Los Angeles Angels<\/td>\n45<\/td>\n37<\/td>\n97<\/td>\n65<\/td>\nThe Angels, and new\u00a0acquisition Albert Pujols, got off to a slow start before putting things together with the\u00a0arrival of Mike Trout.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oakland A’s<\/td>\n41<\/td>\n42<\/td>\n68<\/td>\n94<\/td>\nThe A’s have been much better than expected in the first half.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Seattle Mariners<\/td>\n35<\/td>\n49<\/td>\n64<\/td>\n98<\/td>\nThe Mariners have struggled offensively again in the first half.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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With 81 games in the books, we are officially at the halfway point of the 2012 season. \u00a0The so-called experts at Sports Illustrated made some pre-season predictions that are looking a little off a this point. Team Won Lost Predicted Wins PredictedLosses Comments AL East New York Yankees 49 32 95 67 After a slow-ish […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[123,2087,110,119,2383,2384,115,124,2381,50,111,255,258,2382,126,2380,230,118,49,51],"class_list":["post-2089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-as","tag-albert-pujols","tag-angels","tag-blue-jays","tag-eric-hosmer","tag-evan-longoria","tag-indians","tag-mariners","tag-mike-trout","tag-orioles","tag-rangers","tag-rays","tag-red-sox","tag-ron-gardenhire","tag-royals","tag-sports-illustrated","tag-tigers","tag-twins","tag-white-sox","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2089"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2096,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions\/2096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}