We had one more prognosticator step with predictions than we did last year, which made a battle among 22 of us to see who was most prescient in picking the winners and losers of 2023.
This was our third year of doing this, and no one was more surprised than I was to see who came out on top. Let’s take it phase-by-phase to see how things wrangled out. (And if you’d rather get your prognostications in audio book form, we podcasted about the results as well.)
Unlike 2022, when among other errors the entire staff was unified in picking the White Sox as best in the AL Central, there was no unanimous pick among division winners this year; coming closest were the Wests, with Houston and L.