Source: www.sportsgrid.com --- Wednesday, October 25, 2017
It is really tough to figure out what’s going to happen in a Baseball game, and who will eventually come out on top. It is even tougher to prognosticate who will win the World Series at the start of the season. In 2014, Sports Illustrated took it one step further; they decided to run a story predicting which team would win the World Series…three years in the future: 2017. So far, they are looking really smart. Saturday night, the SI pick, the Houston Astros, defeated the New York Yankees to punch their ticket into The Fall Classic. AMAZING! The article was somewhat tongue in cheek, but based in logic. The Astros had come off a string of terrible seasons, which allowed them to stockpile high draft picks. With so much young talent on the roster, the writer’s analysis was that the team would all gel at the same time, and have a powerhouse three years into the future. Of course, the writer didn’t project they’d acquire Justin Verlander, but that’s a different discussion. Putting George Springer on the cover of that magazine in 2014, with that truly AWESOME orange uniform, and proclaiming the Astros to be the 2017 Champs, is a pretty cool feat…win, lose, or draw against the Dodgers. I thought it would be a fun exercise to predict the 2020 World Series champion. Anyone can predict the Yankees, Dodgers, Cubs, or Red Sox; but that’s no fun. What made the Astros pick so amazing is because of where they were at that time, coming off of th ...
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