MLB 2017 postseason set: Make predictions

[NewYorkExpress]

NL Wild Card Game: Diamondbacks over Rockies (Grienke should be able to pitch seven or eight innings of quality ball, especially as the game won't be in Coors field)

NLDS: Dodgers over Diamondbacks in 4 (Grienke in one starter, the Dodgers have three legit aces in Kershaw, Darvish and Hill) Nationals over Cubs in 5 (Wouldn't be stunned if the Cubs won this, but going up against both Scherzer and Strasburg twice in the same series might be too much for them)

NLCS: Dodgers over Nationals in 7 (Kershaw is simply a better pitcher than either Scherzer or Strasburg IMO)

AL Wild Card Game: Yankees over Twins (The Yankees have had the Twins number for years now. That won't change)

ALDS: Indians over Yankees in 5 (The Tribe are streaking, so I think they can easily stop Aaron Judge/Gary Sanchez) Astros over Red Sox in 5 (This is a very evenly matched series which could either way...however Houston's addition of Verlander gives them the edge)

ALCS Indians over Astros in 6 (The Tribe are just too hot to cool off now)

World Series: Dodgers over Indians in seven (plus a few extra innings) (Clayton Kershaw and Yu Darvish make sure it's wait until next year for the team with the longest active title drought in MLB).

[NewYorkExpress]

Picking a Dodgers-Indians World Series is silly and shows no hindsight of how the baseball post-season has actually played out for the last few years.

AL Wild Card: Yankees over Twins
NL Wild Card: DBacks over Rockies

ALDS: Indians over Yankees in 5, Red Sox over Astros in 6

NLDS: DBacks over Dodgers in 7, Nationals over Cubs in 6

ALCS: Red Sox over Indians in 7

NLCS: DBacks over Nationals in 7

World Series: Red Sox over DBacks in 6

Have you seen how well Cleveland's played lately? I'll give you the Dodgers possibly not making it, but the fact is the hot team usually makes a deep run if not wins it all, and that's Cleveland.

[NewYorkExpress]

Picking a Dodgers-Indians World Series is silly and shows no hindsight of how the baseball post-season has actually played out for the last few years.

AL Wild Card: Yankees over Twins
NL Wild Card: DBacks over Rockies

ALDS: Indians over Yankees in 5, Red Sox over Astros in 6

NLDS: DBacks over Dodgers in 7, Nationals over Cubs in 6

ALCS: Red Sox over Indians in 7

NLCS: DBacks over Nationals in 7

World Series: Red Sox over DBacks in 6

Have you seen how well Cleveland's played lately? I'll give you the Dodgers possibly not making it, but the fact is the hot team usually makes a deep run if not wins it all, and that's Cleveland.

2016: 95 win Rangers bounced by Wild Card winning Blue Jays
2015: 100 win Cardinals bounced by Wild Card winning Cubs
2014: 98 win Angels bounced by Wild Card winning Royals, 96 win Nationals bounced by Wild Card winning Giants
2012: 98 win Nationals bounced by Wild Card winning Cardinals
2011: 102 win Phillies bounced by Wild Card winning Cardinals

The number one seeds in both leagues have met in the World Series just once in the last 18 years (2013). History says either the Dodgers or Indians (or both) are going to hit a wall at some point or another.

It's more likely going to be the Dodgers. They're coming in on a slump, while the Indians are on fire.

[NewYorkExpress]

The Yankees Win! The Yankees Win!!!

The Indians are clearly a cursed team...haven't won the World Series in 69 years (1948).

http://www.cleveland.com/tribe/index.ssf/2017/10/cleveland_indians_new_york_yan_56.html#incart_big-photo

Give them another forty years, then they'll win it all. (If you're not paying attention, that's 109 years, or one more than the Cubs 108 years without a title).

[NewYorkExpress]

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/dusty-baker-nationals-manager-article-1.3576943

Dusty Baker was fired as manager of the Nationals, making the Nationals the second postseason team to fire their manager, after the Boston Red Sox sacked John Farrell earlier this month.

After Baker's (and Farrell's) losses in the NLDS (and ALDS) does this seem unhelpful or will it be a kick in the pants next year for the Nationals (and Red Sox)?

[NewYorkExpress]

Dodgers in seven.

[NewYorkExpress]

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/21166583/joe-girardi-not-returning-manager-new-york-yankees

Joe Girardi is out as Yankees manager...apparently getting to within one game of the World Series wasn't enough for Brian Cashman...or Hal Steinbrenner.

[NewYorkExpress]

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/21166583/joe-girardi-not-returning-manager-new-york-yankees

Joe Girardi is out as Yankees manager...apparently getting to within one game of the World Series wasn't enough for Brian Cashman...or Hal Steinbrenner.

What a dumb decision. Girardi is a very good manager, one of the more capable ones in baseball.

In this Hal Steinbrenner is echoing his father... he would have fired Girardi too.

[NewYorkExpress]

Put on the game... it's a barn-burner.

7-7 and we're only in the bottom of the sixth.

[NewYorkExpress]

Congratulations Houston!!!

I bet Dave Roberts is really wishing he started Kershaw, after seeing how he did coming out of the pen.