MLB Playoff Preview

The MLB playoffs get underway tonight with the AL Wild Card game between the Orioles and Blue Jays, both of these teams have suspect pitching and good offenses.  With this game being in Toronto I'll go with the home team to advance on and play the Rangers.  The NL Wild Card game is tomorrow and is a great pitching matchup between Madison Bumgardner of the Giants and Noah Synderguard of the Mets, sorry about this one Mets fans MadBum is to nasty in the playoffs I don't care about matchup's or offenses, Giants move on.  NLDS San Fransisco Giants vs. Chicago Cubs, I'll pick Cubs.  Washington Nationals vs. Los Angles Dodgers, Dodgers.  ALCS Texas Rangers vs. Toronto Blue Jays, I haven't seen a lot of Texas recently but they have a lot of pieces so give me the Rangers.  Boston Red Sox vs. Cleveland Indians, the Indians have been bitten by injuries lately so I'll take the Red Sox.  NLCS Cubs vs. Dodgers, at this point the Dodger magic runs out and the Cubs with Joe Maddon are special I'll take the Cubs.  ALCS Red Sox vs Rangers, in what should be a very exciting series the Red Sox seem like their on a run so i'll go Red Sox here.  World Series Cubs vs. Red Sox a lot of history in this one,  the Cubs end the misery behind Cy Young candidates, Aroldis Chapman, Chris Bryant and company.  Sorry Red Sox fans and David Ortiz not this year, I've liked the Cubs all year and I still do.              

Yankee elimination (postmortem)

The New York Yankees had an up and down season, with many highs and lows.  After a terrible month of April in which they got to eight games under .500 they rebounded nicely to come into todays last game of the season at 84-77 and on the outside looking into the playoff picture.  Its hard to rebound from a month where you almost go 10 games under and they almost did, if they had gone 6-5 instead of 3-8 on their recent road trip they would be in the mix.  Management felt this team was out of it in late July and traded away three key cogs in Beltran, Miller and Chapman and then A-rod was released and the kids came up like Judge, Sanchez and Austin.  The youth movement signaled a rebirth of sorts as the team started winning and went 13-9 in August and got as high as 12 over .500. However 12 was the high water mark for this team as they could never get over the hump.  You can't win a championship in April but you can loose it.  After today Teixeira will retire and the organization will know more about some of these kids heading into spring training.