2017 MLB Postseason Thread

[Crabcake 1,703]

Seeing as it's October now and all the playoff teams are set, I figured it's time to get this started up.  Here's my playoff predictions:

 

Wild Card Games:

Yankees vs. Twins

Diamondbacks vs. Rockies

 

LDS:

Astros (in 4) vs. Red Sox

Indians (in 3) vs. Yankees

Cubs (in 5) vs. Nationals

Diamondbacks vs. Dodgers (in 5)

 

LCS:

Indians (in 6) vs. Astros

Dodgers vs. Cubs (in 5)

 

World Series:

Indians (in 7) vs. Cubs

[TheRicSlick 844]

It's a shame that the Royals didn't make it with MLB using a blue/gold color scheme for the logos.

[CS85 10,158]

I honestly have no idea what to make of the Cubs.  It all depends on which version of them shows up on any given day.  They're arguably better than they were last season, which is weird to say, but defending the title?  This is unfamiliar territory.  I guess we'll just find out, and I hope along the way baseball's hatewagons will only invigorate with every Cubs win.

[ozzyman314 299]

So Red Sox have to play back to back series against Houston now (Regular season finale + playoffs). 

 

I wonder how often that happens? 

[RyanMcD29 739]

/runs

[The Six 751]

The Dodgers are pretty much the Golden State Warriors of MLB. There's no stopping them, and the whole postseason is simply a formality. These playoffs will be dull unless you love complete domination.

[FGM13 767]

Yankees over Twins

DBacks over Rockies

 

Astros over Red Sox (3-1)

Indians over Yankees (3-2)

Nationals over Cubs (3-1)

Dodgers over DBacks (3-2)

 

Astros over Indians (4-3)

Dodgers over Nationals (4-1)

 

Astros over Dodgers (4-3)

[Kramerica Industries 1,785]

2 hours ago, FGM13 said:

Yankees over Twins

DBacks over Rockies

 

Would be an utter travesty if these two didn't happen, at a minimum.

[Tracy Jordan 992]

3 hours ago, The Six said:

The Dodgers are pretty much the Golden State Warriors of MLB. There's no stopping them, and the whole postseason is simply a formality. These playoffs will be dull unless you love complete domination.

 

I can't tell if you're joking...

[TrueYankee26 962]

10 hours ago, The Six said:

The Dodgers are pretty much the Golden State Warriors of MLB. There's no stopping them, and the whole postseason is simply a formality. These playoffs will be dull unless you love complete domination.

Depends on what team shows up, tbe team that looked like the 1998 Yankees or the team that looked like they couldn't beat the Bad News Bears

[cmm 386]

19 hours ago, Kramerica Industries said:

 

Would be an utter travesty if these two didn't happen, at a minimum.

You mean pure awesomeness. Go Twins!

[Sport 13,376]

Yankees over Twins

Diamondbacks over Rockies

 

Astros over Red Sox 

Indians over Yankees 

Cubs over Nationals* 

Dodgers over DBacks

 

Indians over Astros

Dodgers over Cubs

 

Indians over Dodgers

 

*I feel like this is the only one I really need to explain. The Nationals have demons and Dusty Baker who has demons and who knows how hurt Scherzer is. It's always tough to play with those things haunting your brain, especially when your opponent doesn't. The more relaxed team wins 9/10 games in the postseason. Cubs in 5. 

 

As far as the Indians, they have all the pieces from last year's run, plus they're healthy and they have Encarnacion this time. They're better than they were last year. I'd be stunned if they don't at least make it back to the World Series. 

[ozzyman314 299]

Just going to copy my prediction from the regular season thread. 

 

WC
Yankees vs Twins 
Diamondbacks vs Rockies 

LDS
Red Sox vs Houston - Houston in 4
Yankees vs Indians - Cleveland in 5

Cubs vs. Nationals - Cubs in 4
Diamondbacks vs Dodgers - D'Backs in 5 

LCS
Astros vs.Indians - Indians in 7
Diamondbacks vs. Cubs - D'Backs in 6 

World Series
Diamondbacks vs Indians- Indians in 5

 

I still think Arizona is a major dark horse, but after that 22 win streak It's hard to argue against Cleveland winning it all. 

 

[kroywen 2,279]

Wild Card:

Yankees over Twins

Diamondbacks over Rockies

 

LDS:

Astros over Red Sox

Indians over Yankees ()

Nationals over Cubs

Diamondbacks over Dodgers

 

LCS:

Indians over Astros

Nationals over Diamondbacks

 

World Series:

Indians over Nationals

 

Pretty chalky outside of D-Backs/Dodgers. I don't like how the Dodgers have looked recently, and the D-Backs have performed surprisingly well against them this year (11-8 with a +28 run differential head-to-head).

[Kramerica Industries 1,785]

3 hours ago, cmm said:

You mean pure awesomeness. Go Twins!

 

My own bias aside, two teams that finished, what, six games worse than their opponent making the playoffs because they won a single isolated game at the end of the season? That would make an absolute mockery of MLB's already heavily-flawed playoff system.

[HedleyLamarr 1,393]

Yankees over Twins, Rockies over Diamondbacks

 

Indians over Yankees in 4

Astros over Red Sox in 5

Dodgers over Rockies in 4

Cubs over Nationals in 5

 

Astros over Indians in 7

Dodgers over Cubs in 6

 

Astros over Dodgers in 6

[Magic Dynasty 2,252]

It's about that time...

 

WILD CARD

NYY def. MIN

ARI def. COL

ALDS

HOU def. BOS 3-1

CLE def. NYY 3-0

ALCS

CLE def. HOU 4-3

NLDS

LAD def. ARI 3-2

CHC def. WSH 3-2

NLCS

LAD def. CHC 4-2

WORLD SERIES

LAD def. CLE 4-3

[Gary 749]

Going Diamondbacks over Astros. Although would love to see Verlander win his first ring.

[ninersdd 557]

Anybody but the Dodgers(yes even the Yankees)

[CS85 10,158]

Wild Card:

 

MIN v NYY

COL v ARZ

 

NLDS:

 

CHC v WAS

COL v LAD

 

ALDS:
 

MIN v CLE

BOS v HOU

 

NLCS:

 

CHC v LAD

 

ALCS: 

 

HOU v CLE

 

WS:

 

HOU v CHC

 

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Although I would happily take a championship run from MIN, COL, HOU, and CLE.  They are all okay in my book, even if it comes at the Cubs' expense.