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The week of Opening Day is upon us. 3 days away from baseball coming back and there is plenty of anticipation among many teams in the league. In today's episode, I make my award predictions as well as the 12 teams I think will make the postseason and of those 12 who will win it all. And because I didn't just want to put safe answers, I'm probably wrong about a bunch of things I said...

Baseball is back. Well not quite yet, but we are less then a week away, and we did have some regular season baseball played this week in the form of the Tokyo Series between the Dodgers and Cubs. One team sure had a nice couple of games, while they other needs to find a way to jump start the offense. Less than a week away from Opening Day

Our last Division Outlooks and Predictions is the NL West. If the Dodgers weren't already good enough, they bring back a lot talent and add with Snell and Sasaki among others. How can the rest of the teams compete let alone the NL West teams. Padres and D-Backs will give it there all as both enter the season with good teams and great seasons the last 2 years or so. Giants will look to see if...

Our penultimate Division Outlooks and Predictions is the AL Central. Dog fight for the division, All 4 teams have the chances of taking a playoff spot and winning the division. Only question is which team will have the most things go right for them. The Royals with MVP runner up star Bobby Witt, Guardians and the underrated man himself Jose Ramirez, Tigers on the backs of triple crown CY Young win...

 Continuing our Division Outlooks and Predictions it is the AL East. Yankees finally made it back to the world series last year, but loss. They also loss Soto, but brought in 4 great players to help their team out. Red Sox got better with some nice additions while the Orioles still have young talent but lost Corbin Burnes and that rotation doesn't look great. You got 2 coin flip teams in the...

 Next up for our Division Outlooks and Predictions is the NL East. It's a toss up at the top between the Braves, Phillies and Mets. Mets added Soto, Braves added Profar and Phillies added Luzardo. But who has the better / healthier team. Meanwhile the Nationals will have some fun with their young talent and 1 year deal guys, and the Marlins... well they have Sandy Alcantara back... for now. 

Our next Division Outlooks and Predictions for you is the NL Central. Brewers look to win another division this year but the Cubs have made some major moves including a trade for Kyle Tucker. Will Paul Skenes have an amazing year and elevate the Pirates to success? And how about those Reds, they have done a nice job retooling and if all goes right for them, maybe a chance at the postseason? For th...

Let's get ready to rock and roll. Our first of 6 Division Outlooks and Predictions for you all here today and we are starting with the AL West. This division has belonged to the Astros for many of the past few years here, but with the losses of Bregman and Tucker, is another team primed to take over for them at the top, or will they show that they can still be a great team with some retooling...

Baseball is back. Spring training is here and with it, the feeling of a new baseball season is upon us. As the offseason comes to rest, we get a couple of extensions and last couple of moves. And while they'll be a few more. We look to the start of the 2025 baseball season.

The last big free agent is finally signed. Alex Bregman is with the Boston Red Sox as we gear up for spring training games starting this week. Dodgers bring back some of the guys that have been around for a long time like Kike and of course Clayton Kershaw. Meanwhile Padres finally make some moves and bring in some help that they needed. 

Pete Alonso, after all of the talks and reports from the offseason, somehow still ends up back with the Mets. Not with the deal he once had but the Mets will take it because they could still be looking to add. Besides that Jack Flaherty who started the season with the Tigers before getting traded is now back again with the Tigers for 2025. 

Blue Jays keep on adding in the month of January, this time, they bring on 40 year old, future Hall Of Famer Max Scherzer to join their rotation. Meanwhile Tampa spends some money on Ha-Seong Kim and the Reds had a productive week making a trade and bringing in some help in the outfield. 

Blue Jays get a guy finally, and his name is Anthony Santander. Alongside that, the Braves add a guy wo like Santander had a career year as Jurickson Profar signs with the Braves. To top it all off we got to see which players will join the Hall Of Fame this year in today's episode

Welp, is anyone not surprised at this point. Roki Sasaki has made his decision and will be playing for the Dodgers in 2025 and beyond. Once again the Dodgers get a Japanese star while the Blue Jays once again miss out. So the question that everyone keeps asking, is this good or bad for baseball. Frankly I still have no idea or opinion.

 The Blue Jays are finally able to sign someone from free agency, only issue is that he failed two physicals before hand. Among all that the Mets and Pete Alonso may not be able to work a deal out which makes it seem likely he signs elsewhere and the Roki Sasaki sweepstakes has reached it's final week, and the last two teams in the race, the Dodgers and the Blue Jays. Hmmm, where have we see...

A much more calm week in the offseason but still had some big moves including future hall of famer Justin Verlander who signed with the Giants and the Athletics signing Brent Rooker to a 5 year extension. Among that, the deadline for arbitration happened so lots to talk about this week. 

Happy New Years everyone. As 2025 begins, we have new beginnings for some players as Corbin Burnes joins the D-Backs and Gleyber Torres signs with the Tigers. On the other hand, we have some returning players as Teoscar is back with the Dodgers following their 2024 World Series and Josh Bell is back with the Nationals after a few seasons away from them.

Rickey Henderson, one of the greatest players in MLB history, Oakland A's history as well as the fastest baseball player ever, passed away at the age of 65, 5 days before his birthday on Christmas Day. As the baseball world mourns this passing, the Yankees go out and grab not 1 but 2 former MVPs to bolster a lineup after losing Soto. A couple of trades and a couple of big signings including B...

Woah, holy week of winter meetings. So many big deals took place and so many familiar faces in new places. Kyle Tucker, you are a cub, Devin Williams, you are a yankee, Garret Crochet, you are a red sox. I mean the list goes on and on. Alongside all those trades we also had some signings but no bigger than Max Fried and his 8 year deal. 

SOTO, The sweepstakes are over and coming out on top was the Mets baby. All Mets fans can hail Steve Cohan. A historical deal breaking sports history, 1 year from a different historical deal that saw Ohtani go to the Dodgers. Insane stuff. Besides Soto we had a lot of other notable names sign this week so a big episode is upon us.  

The Soto domino might be falling as soon as this weekend. In the mean time Severino is taking a chance and signing with the *redacted* Athletics. Dodgers are making more deals with deferred money, this time Tommy Edman and to top this episode off, MLB is talking about a rule that lets the best hitter on a team, bat whenever they want once a game. Like what???

Finally a big week for free agency as the Dodgers nab another star, this time it's Blake Snell who also has deferrals in his deal. On the other side of LA, the Angels stay busy this winter and bring in lefty Yusei Kikuchi. That alone as this episode as the busiest one yet and that's not even mentioning the trade that the Reds and Royals made. 

Lets find out the winners of MVP, CY Young, Rookie and Managers Of The Year for the 2024 season, alongside some trades and signings as well as potentially having robot umps for the 2026 season. 

Angels continue to be the only team making some moves here and add to it with the signing of Travis d'Arnaud. Meanwhile MLB announced the All-MLB Teams for the 2024 season and news has it that Roki Sasaki, another Japanese superstar will get posted in the winter which has me very excited to get to see him pitch daily. 

The qualifying offers have been given out, and the stove will slowly start to heat up. Hendricks and Hedges sign, and we get going on some of my predictions for the offseason in today's episode