Preface by Chandler: I want everyone to know that this perfectly epitomizes our show. John sent baseball picks about ten days ago. Of course this came about a month after Opening Day. Then his picks were not formatted in a way that I could post so he had to fix them. Then of course I forgot about it. Luckily, we are now getting to it, giving the people what they want... John's 2021 Baseball Picks.
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A few months ago, Chandler voluntold me to update my MLB picks for the current (then upcoming) season. I obliged and made my picks but didn’t publish them because I was busy. So I figured, now that we are a month in, I would make myself look even more foolish than I usually do by revealing my picks. I will say, I did not touch this since March 10th, so anyway, here we go:
As you can see, I was wrong about a few things that are already evident:
The Royals are in fact the best team in baseball, and nothing else matters from the month of April except that they are only going to get better as they actually start to play well. (Okay one more interruption from Chandler, but please acknowledge with me how funny it is that the Royals have completely fallen apart since John wrote this). Here’s what I mean: If I had known that Whit would be batting under .270, Brad Keller had an ERA that would be playing little league, and Jorge Soler would have 15x as many strike outs as home runs, then I would tell you the Royals stink. Instead, they are leading their division in May with some good players not producing, or not even in the lineup.
This comes with the disclaimer, I remember the 2009 Royals that were 18-11 on May 8th, but finished the year 65-97. The real ones remember a ball bouncing off a seagull in CF scoring a winning run when Coco Crisp couldn’t make the play. I was bitter for a long time, as I thought the seagull incident caused the eventual spiral that led to the rest of the season. In hindsight, I now realize that team just wasn’t any good.
This is the hard hitting analysis you only get from the Crossover.
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