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10 bold predictions for the 2019 Phillies season

Bold predictions are outlandish to begin with. They’re supposed to be pie-in-the-sky or doom-and-gloom predictions. Anyone can predict Bryce Harper is going to hit 35 home runs or that Aaron Nola is going to have a sub-3.00 ERA. Hey, those things may or may not happen, but they’re not exactly “bold.”

So it’s perhaps no surprise that, with my 2017 bold predictions, only one of them really came true. And looking at last year’s, I had a similarly unspectacular success rate.

  1. Velasquez would pitch 150+ innings (FALSE, but SO close, 147 innings!