brball posted:luv baseball posted:Some folks may not remember the controversy a few years back when the Cardinals were guilty of hacking the Astros GM Jeff Luhnow. There were comments asking why the Cards who won 95 every year would need to hack a former front office guy on a team losing 105 per year.
Now we know......
The Astros should be very tough the next few years but the AL with the Indians, Sox and Yanks is absolutely loaded. The Dodgers, Cubs and Nats give the NL a strong top end. If the Giants, Mets and White Sox get it together baseball could be entering one of those rare times when there are number of really great teams and are also the ones with the biggest cities/fanbases. October could provide compelling baseball for years with these teams being so evenly matched.
Mets?
They were in the World Series 2 years ago and are in NY (although with crummy ownership)....if they can get the pitching straightened out and keep the team on field and out of the whirlpool they could win 87/88 games and sneak in. They do have a some holes to fill which is why I qualified it with "IF the Giants, Mets.....get it together."
In NL there are 3 really good teams and the rest have problems. The ones that fix their issues best will get in.