So we lost a series to Baltimore. But man it was close. The way Baltimore is playing, especially thanks to Brian Roberts, they're making me look more like I know what I'm talking about than the lunatic I looked like when I predicted Baltimore winning the AL East, followed by Boston, New York, Tampa, and Toronto.
AL Central: The Twins continue to compete against the good teams and mostly slaughter the bad teams, while the White Sox are off to one hell of a start. It won't last. The White Sox pitching staff is overperforming their abilities. Their hitting is about where it should be. Still if you look at the numbers that count, runs scored and runs scored against, the Sox are even overperforming their pythagorean record. So an overperforming pitching staff overperforming even their overperformance, no way this isn't gonna come back down at the end of the season. The Twins meanwhile are on pace for 100 wins, and their record is actually BELOW their pythagorean record. Now that's going to come back down eventually, but one of these days Santana's going to have a 1-2-3 first inning, and you know the first and second inning is your only chance to score (unless of course you're the Baltimore Orioles and your leadoff hitter has more homers and rbi than anyone on the Twins, including their young French-Canadian who's been channelling Mickey Mantle during the past two weeks. Then you might muster a measly 3 or 4 runs.) Anyway, the Twins will again win the division by a good 6 or 7 lengths, and the Indians will remember that they're slightly talented and end up as close behind the Sox as the Sox are behind the Twins. I still wouldn't be suprised if Detroit pulls of an 80-win season.
LA in the West, and Boston for the Wild Card.
NL: LA, Florida, St. Louis, and the Mets for the Wild Card.
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