2026 MLB playoff predictions: Wild Card picks, best bets
· New York PostGet your motor running!
We were born to be wild! Well, not really, but I did order the spicy pork tacos for dinner and ran a couple of red lights while listening to Barry Manilow to get mentally tough for the wild-card round.
Aaron Judge or not, the Yankees are a better team than the Red Sox. Doesn’t mean anything when these two teams bring the hate.
Love the Braves lineup.
The free-falling Phillies pitching will suffer the consequences.
The so-so Astros won the American League West with an 81-81 record while the upstart White Sox defied the odds and experts.
The Padres had 10 more wins than the ’Stros but still finished nine games behind the Dodgers.
Can they outslug Pete Crow-Armstrong and the Cubs?
Our series plays: $50 on the Red Sox (+130, FanDuel), Braves (-125, DraftKings), White Sox (+115, Fanatics) and Padres (-120, Novig).
And $50 on Payton Tolle and the Red Sox in Game 1 (+120, BetMGM).
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Cam Schlittler, the best pitcher in baseball if not for a guy named Jacob Misiorowski, throws for the Yanks.
We enter the postseason down -154 steppenwolfs.
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