My Championship Series Predictions

The American League and National League Championship series are set as Major League Baseball has their own version of the Final Four. In the American League the Kansas City Royals continue to shock the world and head into Camden Yards to take on the Baltimore Orioles for the American League pennant while in the National League we have the St. Louis Cardinals and the San Francisco Giants.

Kansas City is a team that can come up with the big hits and pound the baseball as they lull you to sleep with great pitching. If the starters can get six innings in the books with the lead that Royals bullpen will shut them down more times than not. Baltimore is more of the team that will out-slug you and outscore you. The pitching in Baltimore is good, not great, but the back end of the bullpen with Andrew Miller and Zach Britton are going to be hard to beat in this series. The clear edge in my opinion goes to Baltimore simply because Buck Showalter has been here before. Good pitching beats good hitting but when you have a team full of stars the better manager tends to win nine times out of ten so I am going with Baltimore in six games.

I have been picking against the Giants all season long so you would think I would be silly to do it again right? Call me silly but St. Louis is just too good. St. Louis has the hitting, the pitching, the bullpen, the depth and versatility, and are the most complete team in my opinion. The Giants are good, don’t get me wrong, and have been continually finding a way to win with the cards stacked against them but that has to come to an end eventually and I think it will in a classic seven game series.

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