There are few combinations in sports greater than the words “October baseball.” And that is just what we have on tap as the long-awaited 2019 Major League Baseball postseason gets started this week, beginning with the National League Wild Card matchup between the Brewers and Nationals on Tuesday.Many experts and fans predict playoff outcomes, but few are ever correct.Who could have foreseen the Cardinals’ David Freese crushing a game-tying triple in the ninth and later walking it off in the 11th inning of Game 6 of the 2011 World Series? How about Cody Ross, a late-August waiver pickup by San Francisco, crushing his way to the NLCS MVP in 2010?Not to mention, baseball has seen a different team raise the championship trophy each of the past 18 years. Predictions are a crap-shoot to say the least.Now that we have all the validity of this playoff guessing squared away, it’s time to introduce 10 bold predictions. Aforementioned, the likelihood of these forecasts proving true are one-in-a-million. Nevertheless, they are based on real statistics and real people. For that reason, consider them educated-guesses as opposed to out-of-pocket hunches.Reminder: keep all hands and feet inside the ride at all times. Away we go.1. The… Read full this story
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