{"id":22543,"date":"2025-03-25T06:13:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T12:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=22543"},"modified":"2025-03-23T10:14:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T16:14:32","slug":"2025-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/2025-predictions\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 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=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/balls-endofseason.jpg 504w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/balls-endofseason-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/a>With the Cubs and Dodgers having already gotten their seasons off to an early start in Tokyo, the North American portion of the 2025 baseball season is scheduled to kick off on Thursday, with a full slate of games featuring all 30 teams.\u00a0 For the fifteenth 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>: Red Sox<\/p>\n<p><strong>Central<\/strong>: Guardians<\/p>\n<p><strong>West<\/strong>: Mariners<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wild Cards:<\/strong> Rays, Twins, Orioles<\/p>\n<p><strong>AL Champion:<\/strong> Guardians<\/p>\n<p><b>Cy Young:<\/b> Garrett Crochet<\/p>\n<p><strong>MVP:<\/strong>\u00a0Julio Rodriguez<\/p>\n<h3>National\u00a0League<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>East<\/strong>: Mets<\/p>\n<p><strong>Central<\/strong>: Brewers<\/p>\n<p><strong>West<\/strong>: Dodgers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wild Cards:<\/strong>\u00a0Cubs, Padres, Phillies<\/p>\n<p><strong>NL Champion:<\/strong>\u00a0Dodgers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cy Young:<\/strong> Dylan Cease<\/p>\n<p><strong>MVP:<\/strong> Shohei Ohtani<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Cubs and Dodgers having already gotten their seasons off to an early start in Tokyo, the North American portion of the 2025 baseball season is scheduled to kick off on Thursday, with a full slate of games featuring all 30 teams.\u00a0 For the fifteenth consecutive year, I\u2019ve looked into the crystal ball to [&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":[121,120,116,7512,9665,9687,10221,124,261,50,231,254,255,258,8049,118],"class_list":["post-22543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-brewers","tag-cubs","tag-dodgers","tag-dylan-cease","tag-garrett-crochet","tag-guardians","tag-julio-rodriguez","tag-mariners","tag-mets","tag-orioles","tag-padres","tag-phillies","tag-rays","tag-red-sox","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-twins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22543","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22543"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22634,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22543\/revisions\/22634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}