The SeedSing 2020 MLB Preview

Much to my surprise, and it was a pleasant one for once in 2020, I realized the MLB season is starting today.

I usually don't watch the MLB, I find it mind numbingly boring, but hey, in 2020 I have found myself watching snippets of UFC, soccer, Korean Baseball and, just yesterday, NBA scrimmages. So, the fact that a major pro sport, who couldn't seem to get things right this summer, is finally getting underway. Who knows how it will go, who knows if they will finish, who knows how many players will get sick, all of that is up in the air. But, they are going to be playing real games that will count towards real records and will, hopefully, get to a World Series and crown a champ.

With all that being said I am going to do my best to do a mini MLB preview. The season is going to be mini, I don't know as much as RD does about baseball, I honestly don't know who is and isn't playing, my dad had to remind me that the Nationals won the World Series last year, so my preview is going to be like all of what I just wrote, very jumbled and mini. Okay, here we go.

I will start in the AL. The season is going to be 60 games, so anything can really happen. If this pandemic was last year, the Nationals wouldn't have even made the playoffs. So, I don't think it is going to be as clear cut as some do. I know people have said that the Yankees and Astros and Red Sox and Twins were all good last year. Well, the Astros are cheaters, so I hope, and don't expect that they will be any good. The Red Sox lost their best guy to the Dodgers, who knows if Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton can stay healthy for such a short season and maybe the Twins were a one season wonder. I would say the best bet of those teams is the Twins, but who knows. I also wouldn't count out teams like the Rays, Athletics, Indians, Blue Jays, if they can find somewhere to play, or even the Angels. Each team has something special that can propel them in such a short season. I do know that the Orioles, Royals and Tigers will not be good because they have been bad, possibly on purpose, for the past couple years. If I am going to pick one team to come out of the AL in this shortened mini season, I think it is a real toss up between the Twins and the Yankees. Again, not much would surprise me, except the Orioles going .500. I could see the Rays making a run, they have solid pitching. Or maybe the A's find some kind of magic like they do every couple of seasons. Or maybe the Astros have found another way to cheat that the MLB doesn't know of yet. But, if I have to pick one team, in a 60 game season to come out of the AL, what the hell, I am going with the Twins. I like their bats, I like their pitching a bit better and I have family that lives in the Twin Cities, and the Twins making the Series would delight them to no end.

Now the NL, the varsity if you will. The teams in the NL are so much better. There is so much more competition. Even the teams considered "bottom feeders" will be hard to beat in a shortened season. The usual suspects will be there. The Dodgers are going to be awesome. They spent enough money to make sure of that. The Braves are very young and very talented. The Phillies have Bryce Harper. The Nationals won it all last year. The Brewers are liable to win 40 plus. Same thing with the Cardinals. And the Diamondbacks still have really solid pitching. Even the teams that I consider "surprise" teams are already good. The Reds are solid. The Cubs still have a great core. The Mets have one of the best pitching staffs in baseball. And the Rockies made a ton of noise last year, and they still have Arenado. The only teams that I think won't be great, but still tough, are the Pirates, Giants and Marlins. The NL is far, far superior to the AL. There is no Baltimore or Detroit in the NL. The Marlins come closest, but I'd still take them over one of the bottom dwellers in the AL. Which team do I think will come out of this and represent the NL? I'm not sure. But, if I had to pick, I'd go with the Dodgers. They have bought the best team money can buy. They also have a really great pitching staff and they have been, and should have won, the past couple of Series. I do think the Cardinals, Brewers and Braves can challenge, but the Dodgers are too good on every level. They truly do have it all.

So that leaves me with a Twins-Dodgers World Series, and I am picking the Dodgers, and picking them in a sweep. They are too loaded, and in this shortened year, I feel like they are going to run roughshod over the league. I could see them winning 50 plus games. I'm serious. They are that good. I also don't see them struggling too much in the playoffs, whenever, or if ever, that happens.

Okay, there is my weird, bizarre 2020 MLB shortened season preview. Time to play ball.

Ty

RD’s thoughts on the season 

I am happy baseball is back. I am not thrilled with how they are doing the season.

I would normally breakdown each division and talk about surprise teams, but that is pointless with this MLB “season”.

Ty is right, the Dodgers are the only sure thing I see in this season, and that is mostly due to the fact that they will play the weakest competition with the AL and NL west. LA is also loaded, I was going to pick them as my NL champs back in late March.

The AL will be won by a team with 35-40 wins. There is a bunch of crap in that league, but no one is as sure a bet as the Dodgers are in the NL. The Yankees have bats, but their pitching is not there and those bats get hurt a lot. The Twins also have bats, but their pitching is a bigger problem than New York’s. Also, the Twins have to play a brutal schedule with all the NL Central teams. The Yankees schedule is not much better adding in the NL East. I think a 35 win Twins, Yankees, or Astros team will come out. I’m going to go with the disgusting Astros.

Astros v Dodgers. LA is going to crush Houston and get their overdue World Series trophy from the cheaters that should not be there.

Oh, and the Cincinnati Reds are going to be solid like Ty said. A solid 30-30 team.

Last prediction, I do not think the season will completed on time, or at all. Too many covidiots that won’t wear a masks

Play Ball.

RD

Ty is the Pop Culture editor for SeedSing and the other host of the X Millennial Man Podcast.

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