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MLB: Season Picks for Divisions, Wildcards, World Series

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Major League Baseball is now in full swing after Opening Day (which spans over several days – notably Sunday and Monday).  We’re doing our season picks a little late, but there’s been a ton of other news to discuss, and, honestly, how many people are really into baseball this early in the season?

My guess is “not many.”

But last year brought a whole lot of fringe fans back to the fold, especially after an exciting World Series extra-innings Game 7 between the Indians and the Cubs, which was the highest rated World Series game in what seems like forever.

Spring training is over, and we’re finally into real baseball.  Cardinals – Cubs was highly watched on Sunday, and the Cardinals getting the opening day win was somewhat of a shock, especially with everything the Cubs brought back this season, so we’ve already seen something interesting in this season.

So let’s get to it — here are Chris’s and my picks for division winners, wild cards, and the World Series for this season.  You can also hear these picks, and our reasoning, in Podcast #73, which is embedded here as well.

 

soundcloud.com/winningcureseverything/episode-72-april-4th-2017

American League

East

Gary’s Pick: Boston Red Sox

Chris’s Pick: Boston Red Sox

Central

Gary’s Pick: Cleveland Indians

Chris’s Pick: Cleveland Indians

West

Gary’s Pick: Texas Rangers

Chris’s Pick: Houston Astros

Wildcard #1

Gary’s Pick: Houston Astros

Chris’s Pick: Texas Rangers

Wildcard #2

Gary’s Pick: Baltimore Orioles

Chris’s Pick: Toronto Blue Jays

 

National League

East

Gary’s Pick: Washington Nationals

Chris’s Pick: Washington Nationals

Central

Gary’s Pick: Chicago Cubs

Chris’s Pick: Chicago Cubs

West

Gary’s Pick: Los Angeles Dodgers

Chris’s Pick: Colorado Rockies

Wildcard #1

Gary’s Pick: St. Louis Cardinals

Chris’s Pick: New York Mets

Wildcard #2

Gary’s Pick: San Francisco Giants

Chris’s Pick: San Francisco Giants

 

World Series

Matchup

Gary’s Pick: Los Angeles Dodgers vs Boston Red Sox

Chris’s Pick: Chicago Cubs vs Boston Red Sox

Winner

Gary’s Pick: Boston Red Sox

Chris’s Pick: Boston Red Sox

 

Gary Segars

Gary began his first website in 1998 as a sophomore in high school, writing reviews of cds and live shows in the Memphis area. He became editor of his college newspaper, then moved towards a career in music.He started the infamous MemphisTider.com blog during the 2006 football season, and was lucky enough to get into blogging just before the coaching search that landed Nick Saban at Alabama. The month and a half long coaching search netted his site, which was known for tracking airplanes, over 1 million hits in less than 90 days. The website introduced Gary to tons of new friends, including Nico and Todd, who had just started the site RollBamaRoll.com.After diving into more than just Alabama news, Gary started up his first installment of WinningCuresEverything.com in 2012. After keeping the site quiet for a while, it was started back up in April 2016. Gary then joined forces with high school friend Chris Giannini and began a podcast during the 2016 football season that runs at least 2 times a week, focusing on college football, NFL football, and sports wagering, and diving into other sports and pop-culture topics.E-mail: gary@winningcureseverything.com Twitter: @GaryWCE