Cubs not only team holding postseason misery card

There’s one spot available and the two best teams that aren’t division winners play for it. The MLB also implemented new timing rules in an attempt to “Make Baseball Fun Again”. It is also possibly the last run for Boston designated hitter David Ortiz, who at 40 is still able to smoke screamers into the gaps or out of the park.

As for the Rangers current team, they have the always enjoyable Adrian Beltre along with the possible comeback player of the year nominee in Ian Desmond, Jose Bautista face puncher Rougned Odor, Nomar Mazara and Jonathan Lucroy. Since 1990, only four teams with the best record have won it all – the ’98 and ’09 Yankees and the ’07 and ’13 Red Sox. The injury riddled Indians do hold home field advantage but will have to make the most of it to have any chance against this Boston team.

I do not have a problem with teams celebrating the fact that they made the playoffs but to have a televised party with beer and champagne flying everywhere and players wear swimming goggles to protect their eyes.

I can’t name the someone else because it could be any of the teams who’ve qualified for the 2016 playoffs. They finished 9th in Major League Baseball with a 103 wRC+ among non-pitchers.

They have probably one of, if not the best, young outfields in the game which includes Mookie Betts, Jackie Bradley, Jr. and Andrew Benintendi. Texas awaits the wild card game victor, either the Baltimore Orioles (+2000) or Toronto Blue Jays (+1200).

With the two dramatic wild card games out of the way, MLB’s postseason is about to ramp up.

With stories like that – rightly so – Grandma didn’t talk much about the Cubs’ Series win. Jonathan Lucroy has a been an upgrade at catcher for the Rangers. The Washington Nationals and Los Angeles Dodgers will square off in a series loaded with talent – and playoff failure – on both sides. But then again, that didn’t exactly work out with David Price past year, and the Jays have a very strong quartet to run out.

Since the big leagues expanded the playoffs to include a wild card round in 1995, no National League team with the best record in baseball has won the World Series.

In a previous article, the Phoenix had mentioned that this might finally be the Cubs’ year. “If the Giants hadn’t gotten in, the Cubs would be waltzing into the World Series”. I mean, I have a vested interest in a certain magical team that plays many of their games in Queens, and it’s somewhat sacrilegious to pick against them.

Unfortunately for the Nats, they will be without Wilson Ramos and Stephen Strasburg, two of their biggest contributors this season for a majority of the postseason, if not all of it. I like the Cubs to win the first two games at Wrigley Field, the Giants to pull out Game 3 at home, and for Chicago to take care of business in Game 4. Ace Jake Arietta has simply fallen off since the All-Star break, posting a 3.69 ERA and a dismal 12.60 ERA in his most recent start.

If she had, she might have noted that Teddy Roosevelt was president at the time, that the country was 132 years old – now it’s 240 years of age – and that a couple bicycle-making brothers named Wright, just five years earlier, had gotten a flying machine to work.

Of the 21 executives who picked a World Series victor, seven selected the Cubs and six picked the Red Sox. Like the Cubs, the Red Sox are a talented team with another massive fan base filled with hope. The Red Sox, hands down, have had the best offense in the Major League Baseball this year. If Rick Porcello struggles in Game 1, it could be a bad sign for the Red Sox. The Red Sox ended their curse in 2004 and have been one of MLB’s most successful franchises since. Similarly, the return of Koji Uehara, adding onto the already stellar closing battery of Junichi Tazawa and Craig Kimbrel, serves as an impressive boost for the Red Sox playoff run.

Alex Ferrario- I’m going to be throwing my vote on the Red Sox.