Consider this an exercise in futility. For the past few years, we have stuck our necks out, making bold predictions for the season to come. Our 2018 picks were downright awful, and the seasons before that haven’t gone much better.
But that’s not the point, really. With Opening Day just a few days away, we’re throwing caution to the wind. Rather than relying on statistical projections and other more measured approaches, we want to take a few wild stabs at what will happen in the season ahead. Baseball is weird — wonderfully, wonderfully weird — and not everything in a given game, series, or season will go to plan.