MLB Playoff Predictions

MLB Playoffs:

NL Wild Card:

St. Louis over Atlanta

AL Wild Card:

Texas over Baltimore

NLDS:

Washington over St. Louis in 5

San Francisco over Cincinnati in 4

ALDS: 

Detroit over Oakland in 5

New York over Texas in 5

NLCS:

San Francisco over Washington in 5

Detroit over New York in 6

World Series:

Detroit over San Francisco in 5

Thoughts: Unbelievable, to think there was actually one point in the season when the Sox were 3 games ahead of my Tigers with 16 games left that I thought we wouldn't catch up and now here I am actually picking my team to win it all.  You know what they say, once you get yourself in the postseason, anything can happen, I believe if our Tigers pull it off, it will be one of those teams with the lowest victory totals to win it since the 2006 Cardinals.  Speaking of the 2006 Cardinals, I was tempted to pick them to face our Tigers again with a different result however. Many intriguing potential pitching matchups to think of this postseason, Verlander vs. Sabathia, Strasburg vs Carpenter, Lincecum vs. Strasburg, Verlander vs. Lincecum, etc. I don't think there has been any two hotter teams in baseball than our Tigers and the Yankees, both 12-4 in their last 16.

Overall, I believe the way our pitching has looked lately could carry us all the way, this potential    Tigers-Yankees ALCS matchup very well could determine the winner of this year's World Series champion. If intangibles are an indication then you can count on our Tigers who have just owned the Yankees lately, recently in last season's ALDS winning in 5 and in 2006 winning in 4.