The baseball season opens today with three major league games on the Sunday slate. It's going to be a great day with some No. 1 starters Matt Harvey, Chris Archer, Marcus Stroman, Edison Volquez and Adam Wainwright getting the ball rolling on the 2016 season.
The JLB Draft on Friday night gave me little time to produce previews, but I put the time in on Saturday to punch these out. The draft was a lot of fun and the flow was great with the new 60 seconds per pick. It added a challenge that I rather enjoyed, and for the first time in a
long time, counting both football and baseball, I didn’t get a lot of the guys
I was targeting.
Strangely, though, it wasn’t because people were stealing
them out from under me, per say. It was because where I slated to take them,
there were players available that I could just not pass up.
It was a strange draft nonetheless, and I think it will lead
to an interesting shakeup in the American League for sure. I also think we'll see the American League be a little more competitive. Last year, combined, the six teams went 1,134-1,274-364 as compared to the 1,306-1,166-300 the National League six put up. That should shift a little.
I didn’t do the Jammermetric Scale this year, partly because
everyone hates it, and two, I just don’t have all day to plug in numbers with
the season starting less than 40 hours after our draft completed.
That said, I won’t deprive you of my totally biased
predictions. You have to see what I think so you can yell at me, make fun of me
and prove me wrong, right?
So here it goes.
1. Outs, 245 wins
2. Slammers, 229 wins
3. Steaks, 215 wins
4. Vandelay, 214 wins
5. Otto, 197 wins
6. Steroid, 178 wins
1. Gamblers, 221 wins
2. Choo, 216 wins
3. Panthers, 210 wins
4. Big Country, 198 wins
5. Bombers, 196 wins
6. Crox Sox, 173 wins
Divisional Series
Slammers over Steaks
Panthers over Choo
Championship Series
Outs over Slammers
Gamblers over Panthers
World Series
Outs over Gamblers
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