Warning: My baseball predictions are normally awful. For
example, my pre-season MLB picks this year had the Red Sox beating the
Nationals in the World Series and of course, neither team made the playoffs.
But, I never give up, because I’m an idiot.
So, here goes. This is my breakdown for the 2015 World
Series:
The Mets are this year’s surprise team and anyone who picked
them to be in the World Series in April is either crazy of lying. The Royals
were the best team in the American League this season after barely losing to
the SF Giants in the Series last year, so the fact that there here again is
not a huge surprise.
The Mets snuck past the Dodgers and spanked the Cubs and now
they’re looking to finish this thing. The Royals want to prove that they
deserve to be at the pinnacle and are hungry to make up for last year’s defeat.
I look at both teams and I see that they’re pretty close in talent and I do
believe that the Royals are a more solid, better-coached and overall deeper
squad. But in the end, the Mets have
too much amazin’ starting pitching and that’s why I think they will win the
Series in 5 games.
The Royals have some hot hitters (Ben Zobrist .326 and
Alcides Escobar .386 in the postseason) and they will surely not be intimidated
after being in last year’s Series. They also have some solid starting pitchers
(Ventura, Cueto, Volquez and Young), but in the end the Mets just have too much
superior pitching.
It will be a Series of power vs. contact, but this year
proves that home runs are king. So, I am picking the Mets to score more runs
than the Royals. They say the Royals don’t strike up much, but they don’t
always face a staff like NY’s.
Matt Harvey, Jacob deGrom, Noah Syndergaard and Steven Matz
are all young and explosive. They remind me of the four young pitchers that the
Amazin’ Mets rode all the way to the world championship in 1969—Tom Seaver,
Jerry Koosman, Gary Gentry and a spot starter by the name of Nolan Ryan.
As far as offensively, the Mets have arguably the hottest
postseason player in the history of this great game. With seven home runs and a
batting average of .421, why would you even think about pitching to Daniel Murphy?
So, here is how I think the Series will play out:
Harvey and deGrom will dominate the first two games in
Kansas City. These guys have lights out stuff and the Royals have not seen them
enough to know what’s coming. A rested
Harvey will be poised and prepared to take Game #1 and deGrom is young, but I
don’t that he’ll get rattled about pitching on the world’s largest stage.
By the time the Series hits the Big Apple, the Mets will be
up 2-0. I think KC will take #3, mainly because I just don’t think that the
Mets can sweep a very good Royals team, so I am picking Syndergaard to lose a
tight game. Then, I believe Matz will take #4 and Harvey comes back to finish
the job in New York.
The Royals have a better and deeper bullpen, but the Mets
have a superior closer with Jeurys Familia (0.00 ERA, 86 K in postseason). The
Royals are better defensively, but the Mets’ pitchers make that less of a
factor. The scene in KC will be insane, but the atmosphere at Citi Field will
be over the top!
Who will the MVP of the Series be? My pick is David Wright and here’s why. The Royal’s pitchers will be thinking about Daniel Murphy and Wright bats in front of Murph. I believe they will be too concerned about Murphy to concentrate on Wright and that’s why he will be their MVP.
To make the Series more complete, I also hope these things will happen:
-Amy Schumer announces her engagement to Matt Harvey,
breaking poor little Bradley Cooper’s heart.
-Jacob deGrom sits in and plays with the SNL band while Daniel Murphy hosts
-The son of the Mets’ fan who made all those great signs
during the ’69 Series continues the tradition.
-A man tries to bring a goat into Citi Field and they let
him
-The Royals start in-fighting and a headline in the NY Post
reads “Yost Infection”
-Announcer Joe Buck loses his voice and the underrated
Harold Reynolds takes over
-Erin Andrews asks at least one interesting question
-Tim McGraw gets to sing the anthem at one of the game’s in
NY, out of respect to his late father
-Ba Ba Booey from the Howard Stern Show and 50 Cent do not
throw out first pitches (Seen enough)
-Some NY fan catches a ball without dropping his baby and
two beers
