Predicting the 2021 MLB Playoffs
By s.a. rose
2021 Championship Series
New York Yankees (4), Houston Astros (2)
The prediction here is the Yankees will get back to their first World Series in 12 seasons with a series win over Houston. With two of the best one-through-nine line-ups in baseball setting a number of hitting records for an AL series, the series will be remembered most for ancient closer Aroldis Chapman in the last year of his 5 year, $86 million dollar (still a record deal for a closer) shutting the door on Houston’s heaviest hitters for four saves and the Series MVP. Some controversy is expected as the award for winning the Series MVP is a new 2022 Chevrolet Ghost but Chapman is already on the record from 2019 as saying that there is no way he’s getting into a self-driving car.
Chicago Cubs (3), Los Angeles Dodgers (4)
Winning Game 7 at Wrigley will be a first for the Dodgers in this epic rivalry as the Dodgers arms will silence the Cub bats for the second straight NL series. Being able to trot an elite starter out (who would be the Number 1 guy on twenty-five of the other thirty teams) for each game in this series is the difference as the Dodgers are built to win a number of low-scoring games. NL Series MVP Cody Bellinger was consistently great in the seven game series accounting for 50% of the Dodger RBI but his series was overshadowed by the news that Cub manager Joe Maddon’s retirement is only a retirement from baseball as the “extremely intelligent” manager has been pegged to replace Alex Trebek as the host of the long-running TV game show ‘Jeopardy’.