Predictions are typically fun to do before the year, but this year MLB predictions seem, well, predictable. About 10-12 teams have decided to pretty much go cheap rebuild and sit this year out, and at the other end of the spectrum, 6-8 teams looks like All-Star teams assembled by Springfield Nuclear Plant owner C. Montgomery Burns. So it may be pretty tempting to just project everything that happened last year to repeat itself this year. Time is a flat circle, after all.
But hold up a sec, if a plucky little Jesuit college in Chicago can best the big boys and reach the Final Four powered by the prayers of a 98-year nun, then anything can happen.