N important part of any fan’s preparation for baseball’s regular season is managing and creating expectations. Not just from the normal euphemistic sense of”preparing yourself for failure” (though definitely baseball entails a lot of failure) but also in the sense of figuring out exactly what every team is capable of accomplishing. An 85-win year and third-place finish would be a tragedy for the Red Sox, for instance, but it would be the best season the Cincinnati Reds have handled in the greater part of a couple of years.
Expectations come from external means, like projections being bullish on the Yankees or down to the A’s this season, or through a quick glance at a group’s roster structure, which could reveal the Padres or even Braves could overachieve thanks for their glut of young talent. Additionally, it is possible to imagine at a team’s confidence through the moves it made in the offseason–the Phillies, after falling short, filled two shopping carts in the supermarket this winter–or throughout the rhetoric of its GM, director, or gamers. The indications are everywhere. So let’s position all 30 teams based on how good they ought to be this year.
Houston Astros
Houston won 103 games last year and its roster may be better in 2019. The Astros lost Charlie Morton and (likely ) Dallas Keuchel to free agency this offseason, plus Lance McCullers Jr. to Tommy John, however somewhat 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 competent replacement.
Houston also covered up its few flaws: Catcher Robinson Chirinos (.222/.338/.419 past year) will be an improvement on Brian McCann (.212/.301/.339 at 2018), and when nothing else viewing him squat 150 times a game won’t make you wince and hold your knees. The Astros went outside and got Michael Brantley to play left field, where they were quietly pretty bad last year; portion of the reason for that has been Kyle Tucker, their best offensive prospect, who attracted comparisons to Ted Williams in spring training last year but struck .141/.236/.203 in 72 enormous league plate appearances. Whether he’s coming from the bench, DHing, or displacing Josh Reddick in right field throughout this season, Tucker should supply more (some ) value in 2019, as will Carlos Correa, who played a back injury in the second half and hit only .180/.261/.256 following the break. Correa posted back-to-back six-win seasons in 2016 and 2017, and with 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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