2016 MLB Over/Unders
A tradition like many, many others. Each year Pat and I attempt to pick 10 teams to exceed or elude their published Vegas win total with varying degrees of success. Winner gets a pub crawl that will likely never happen in reality. We need to change the prize to a good bottle of whiskey or something. Confidence scoring. Forward.
10 Points – Oakland OVER 75.5
9) Pittsburgh UNDER 86.5
8) Baltimore UNDER 79.5
7) Seattle OVER 82.5
6) Cleveland OVER 85.5
5) Miami OVER 78.5
4) LA Dodgers OVER 88.5
3) St. Louis UNDER 87.5
2) Tampa OVER 82.5
1) San Diego UNDER 73.5
If I was doing tiers, we would have Oakland and Pittsburgh in tier 1, Baltimore and Seattle in 2, Cleveland, Miami and the Dodgers in 3 and everyone else in tier 4. I think the AL West will be a bloodbath with all five teams having a legitimate chance to win the division, kind of like the AL East in recent seasons only without the pervasive mediocrity. Cubs seem likely to run away with the Central but I was scared off of their move from 90 to 93.5 on the totals so I’m being somewhat derivative with unders on PIT and STL. Miami gets on partly due to getting 40 games versus the Phillies and Braves.
Division Winner Guesses:
AL East – Toronto
AL Central – Cleveland
AL West – Oakland
NL East – Miami
NL Central – Chicago
NL West – Los Angeles
