Trying to predict baseball is among the most foolish things anyone can do. Seriously, it's up there with throwing on a swimsuit made of raw meat and jumping into shark-infested waters.
But since it can also be a lot of fun, let's use the midway point of the schedule as an excuse to get into eight predictions for the remainder of the 2024 MLB season.
These encompass four player-specific predictions and four team-specific ones, which are based partly on statistical projection and partly on pure imagination. And just between us, the latter had more influence on the process than the former.