MLB Picks: St. Louis Cardinals at Milwaukee Brewers, AB Doubler

MLB Picks: St. Louis Cardinals at Milwaukee Brewers Adam Wainwright is one of my favorites. He’s reliable and consistent, and he plays for a team that is also reliable and consistent. The St. Louis Cardinals rarely “fail to show up” and even on the road you can trust them in progressions with pitching edges. Once again, I’ve got an AB doubler that is carried by the strength of Adam Wainwright and Lance Lynn coming right behind him.

The St. Louis Cardinals are a vastly superior team. The Milwaukee Brewers have looked absolutely atrocious to start the season. The lineup, ...

MLB Picks: Cincinnati Reds at Chicago Cubs

MLB Picks: Cincinnati Reds at Chicago Cubs – AB Doubler

I like the Chicago Cubs this year. I think they have some dominant pitching at the top of the rotation and they look to have their lineup solidified. I expect them to be much better this season than last year and make the leap to being a competitive franchise.

I don’t like the Reds this season. I expect them to be sellers at the deadline and don’t think they will compete. I don’t think the lineup has enough depth and I don’t think they improved from last season. The rotation is ...

MLB Picks: Boston Red Sox at Philadelphia Phillies, AB Doubler

MLB Picks: Boston Red Sox at Philadelphia Phillies AB Doubler Progression

The Boston Red Sox lineup is loaded, the Philadelphia Phillies don’t have the pitching to contain them, and even if they did I don’t think they could keep up offensively. Rick Porcello might be something of a liability, but there’s so much value in this line it’s difficult to stay away. I know Boston is on the road, but this should be one of the best teams in the AL vs one of the worst teams in the NL. Further, this should be one of the best teams in ...

2015 MLB Preseason Predictions, Opening Day: National League Preview

2015 National League MLB Preview: Washington Nationals Will Dominate

It’s opening night and one of the best rivalries in baseball history takes center stage as a revamped Chicago Cubs team hosts perennial favorites in the St. Louis Cardinals. I couldn’t be more excited. While we don’t have a bet on the first game of the year, it’s a good time to finish up our MLB preseason predictions with our 2015 National League preview.

It’s not so much that the Washington Nationals are the best team in baseball – which I think they might be – it’s more that they play in such a weak division. The Atlanta Braves are trying to rebuild, the New York Mets aren’t ready yet, the Philadelphia Phillies have been rebuilding for years, and the Miami Marlins are consistently mediocre. Washington should dominate the National League in 2015 by default.

That said, the rest of the NL is defined by its parity and clutter. The NL ...

2015 MLB Predictions – American League: Will New York Yankees Compete?

2015 American League MLB Preview: Are New York Yankees Relevant?

I’m excited about baseball season being so close, but I cannot hide what this year’s 2015 American League MLB Preview is going to say. For the first time, I won’t be picking my New York Yankees to win the AL East. It hurts, but this is just not an elite baseball franchise anymore.

In recent years, my New York Yankees have tested my faith in baseball. I’ve played ball since I was three, I’ve watched for probably just as long, and in recent years everything that was good in baseball has gone away. I watched the chemistry and “team baseball” of the 90s dynasty be replaced by a festival of large contracts that rarely panned out, all to buy one more World Series. Derek Jeter has retired, but a 39-year-old Alex Rodriguez is still clinging to a spot on the Yankees roster? Is there no justice in the baseball world? ...

World Series Predictions: Royals Giants – MLB Playoffs Picks

MLB World Series Prediction: Kansas City Royals Vs San Francisco Giants – Playoffs Picks

The Kansas City Royals and San Francisco Giants have had an impressive run. The Royals swept their way through the playoffs and the Giants found a way to win a series of tight games with the Cardinals and sneak in. Well, I got this one wrong. I thought burning your ace in the first round play-in game would render both of these rotations crippled. I thought neither Wild Card team had the depth to break through.

I look at this game both with my heart and my wallet. I want to see the Kansas City Royals win it all. I believe in small market baseball and this team is as hot as any team in playoff history. Further, the Giants did them a favor. Walking off means the series doesn’t extend and there will be no cooling off period for KC.

The bullpen is phenomenal, ...

2014 MLB Playoffs: ALCS and NLCS Predictions

MLB Playoffs Bracket: ALCS and NLCS Predictions

What an exciting first round of the 2014 MLB Playoffs. Close games, epic comebacks, and unexpected results. All in all, we didn’t do too bad, but the San Francisco Giants upsetting the Washington Nationals was not something I saw coming. We nailed the Baltimore Orioles dominating their series, and we got the St. Louis Cardinals upset as well. That said, the burning hot Royals have been very impressive and I don’t think anyone predicted a sweep. All in all, we’re up over $1,000 on the season with an average bet around 50 bucks. If we can have a strong finish to the playoffs, this season will be another profitable one. Let’s move on to the seven-game series round.

ALCS

Baltimore Orioles vs Kansas City Royals

I don’t think anyone is giving the Royals a chance, again, and that may prove to be a mistake. While the Orioles are on fire, the Royals have ...

MLB Playoffs Picks, ALDS: Kansas City Royals at Los Angeles Angels, ABC

MLB Playoffs Picks: ALDS round, Kansas City Royals at Los Angeles Angels – ABC ProgressionThe Kansas City Royals rallied to pull off one of the most exciting playoff wins I can remember, and certainly one of the best in their franchise history. Unfortunately, they also burned their ace and enter this series a notch lower in their playoff pitching rotation than the Los Angeles Angels.

I think, as baseball intended when they came up with the play-in game, this is a tremendous edge. The Royals are scrappy, I love their brand of small ball and stealing bases, and I think ...

2014 MLB Playoffs Predictions: Wild Card Round to World Series Picks

2014 MLB Playoffs Predictions

Wild Card Round

Oakland Athletics at Kansas City Royals – One Game Playoff

Lester V Shields

They don’t call him “Big Game James” for nothing. The way the Oakland Athletics have hit since the trade deadline, combined with a little bit of cold weather and a hot Kansas City team, makes me lean ever so slightly to the home team here. It’s hard to bet against Lester, but the A’s bullpen is struggling and they haven’t been scoring enough to earn my support. With that elimination game losing streak in tact for the Athletics, I’m on KC here.

Royals 4 – Athletics 1 ...

MLB Picks: Pittsburgh Pirates at Atlanta Braves

MLB Picks: Pittsburgh Pirates at Atlanta BravesTo be clear, there are no plays in my baseball system in the VIP Club forum today. With all the excitement of the MLB Playoffs right around the corner, I see no reason to really force it. I don’t feel strongly enough about any of the games, we’ve made money on a lot of the series already (like this one), and there’s no statistical edge opportunities for a progression.

The computer sees a nice underdog edge here in the Delta System. It makes sense, it’s basically the reason we launched an ABC progression on this ...