The Yankees are one of the postseason field of 12 this year, and Judge's homerun chase has largely overshadowed how the team limped into the playoffs and almost blew a 15-game division lead. Outside of the AL Central, and the Mariners ending the longest playoff drought in all of professional sports, the rest of this year's postseason field was mostly chalk and I picked 8 of the 12 teams correctly. Sadly this did not include the Brewers, who missed the postseason for the first time since 2017, and actually played their first regular season games in which they were eliminated from playoff contention since Craig Counsell's first full season 6 years ago.
PLAYOFFS START 10/7/22
NL Wild Card Round - #3 Cardinals host #6 Phillies, #4 Mets host #5 Padres
NLDS - #1 Dodgers v. 4/5 Winner, #2 Braves v. 3/6 Winner
AL Wild Card Round - #3 Guardians host #6 Rays, #4 Blue Jays host #5 Mariners
ALDS - #1 Astros v. 4/5 Winner, #2 Yankees v. 3/6 Winner
World Series Prediction: Astros defeat Braves in 7
Rooting for: Mets v. Blue Jays
Preseason Predictions
#1 Dodgers
#2 Braves
#3 Brewers
#4 Phillies
#5 Mets
#6 Cardinals
#1 Blue Jays
#2 White Sox
#3 Astros
#4 Rays
#5 Tigers
#6 Angels
Dodgers defeat Blue Jays in 5
touch with baseball when his childhood heroes Robin Yount, Paul Molitor, and Jim Gantner retired but the Great Home Run Chase of 1998 reignited his passion. As a student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Erik became involved with the campus chapter of Habitat for Humanity. With this group Erik traveled to Portland, OR and Baltimore, MD to work on construction projects and help the group raise $25,000 to partially sponsor a house in Milwaukee. Also at UWM, Erik met Peter Nagel. The two attended their first Brewers game together during Opening Weekend 2003. Despite their failure to ignite the coals at their first tailgate, the two had a blast and were soon making weekly trips to the ballpark. Erik has gone on to several colleges and changed careers several times, and has moved all the way out to New Hampshire, but has always stayed true to his baseball roots by holding part-time stadium usher jobs. To this day he looks back fondly on his incredible cross-country journey.