N important part of any enthusiast’s preparation for baseball’s regular season is creating and managing expectations. Not just in the normal euphemistic sense of”preparing yourself for collapse” (though definitely baseball involves a lot of failure) but also in the sense of figuring out exactly what each team is capable of accomplishing. An 85-win season and third-place finish could be a disaster for the Red Sox, for instance, but it would be the best year the Cincinnati Reds have handled in the greater part of a decade.
Expectations come from external means, like projections systems being bullish on the Yankees or down on the A’s this season, or via a fast glance at a group’s roster structure, which could show that the Padres or Braves could overachieve thanks to their glut of young talent. It’s also possible to guess in a group’s confidence via the motions it created in the offseason–the Phillies, after falling short, stuffed two shopping carts at the supermarket this winter–or through the rhetoric of its own GM, manager, or gamers. The clues are everywhere. So let us rank all 30 teams based on how good they ought to be this season.
Houston Astros
Houston won 103 games last year and its roster may be even better in 2019. The Astros lost Charlie Morton and (likely ) Dallas Keuchel to free agency this offseason, also Lance McCullers Jr. into Tommy John, however marginally incredibly have the pitching depth to compensate for it. Utilityman Marwin Gonz??lez pulled up stakes and headed to Minnesota, but Aledmys D??az figures to be a capable replacement.
Houston also covered up its few flaws: Catcher Robinson Chirinos (.222/.338/.419 last year) will be an improvement on Brian McCann (.212/.301/.339 in 2018), and when nothing else viewing him squat 150 times a game will not make you wince and maintain your knees. The Astros went outside and got Michael Brantley to play left field, where they had been quietly pretty bad last season; part of the reason for that has been Kyle Tucker, their best offensive potential, who drew comparisons to Ted Williams in spring training last season but struck .141/.236/.203 at 72 big league plate appearances. Whether he’s coming off the bench, DHing, or displacing Josh Reddick in appropriate field during the summer, Tucker should provide more (some ) value in 2019, as will Carlos Correa, who performed through a back injury in the second half and struck only .180/.261/.256 following the break. Correa posted back-to-back six-win seasons in 2016 and 2017, and also six extra-base hits in 42 preseason plate looks, he looks a lot more comfortable than he did six months ago.
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