MLB predictions for 2024: Skilled picks for full baseball standings, playoff fields and World Sequence champions

Positive, two video games of the two,430 scheduled video games have already been performed for the 2024 Main League Baseball season, however every part else remains to be to come back. Plus, MLB is sticking with the Opening Day branding for Thursday, so we’ll proceed to behave as if the season hasn’t really began. But it’s nigh. Which means we will roll out our annual predictions. 

As is the case each single season, there might be loads of surprises. None of us had the Diamondbacks profitable the NL pennant final season nor the Rangers taking dwelling their first World Sequence title. Having unpredictable occurrences unfold throughout the course of our marathon season is a part of the enjoyable. If every part was as a lot a certain factor because the Rockies ending final within the NL West, we would not hassle watching.  

Right here at CBS Sports activities, our MLB workers has put collectively our 2024 season predictions. Listed below are our particular person makes an attempt to nail it down. Once more, we’ll get a lot proper and many flawed. Let’s do it. 

Explanations

R.J. Anderson: Participant well being is the nice unknown in public evaluation. All we will do with that thriller is go off what we all know and make our greatest guesses from there. As such, in case you informed me the Dodgers, Yankees, or a few of these different groups made my World Sequence picks look foolish by staying more healthy than I anticipated … properly, honest sufficient. Not that these groups (or others) have any purpose to be ashamed if we do find yourself getting the Astros-Braves prediction. I feel most everybody would agree each of these groups are at or close to the highest of their leagues. That it could be a rematch of the 2021 World Sequence is only a coincidence.

Mike Axisa: Apart from the 2 Central divisions, I feel the favorites in every division are fairly clear reduce, then when you get to the postseason, issues are extra topic to randomness. The Astros had been one win away from their third straight pennant and fourth within the final 5 years. That workforce remains to be actually good, and I feel there’s sufficient expertise there to beat out the Orioles and Rangers in a brief sequence. I see Baltimore and Texas as the most effective non-Astros groups within the AL. As for the NL, the Phillies are constructed so properly for the postseason with high-end starters, a bullpen filled with bat-missers, and a lineup with at the very least six plus hit instrument gamers. Philadelphia because the workforce to beat in 2024 for me.

Kate Feldman: I feel the AL East and NL Central are going to be essentially the most fascinating divisions, however for very totally different causes. Everybody however the Purple Sox ought to be within the hunt for the AL East title and I would not be stunned if at the very least two of them creep near 100 wins. The NL Central is nowhere close to as aggressive however I feel most of these 5 might be within the race late too, simply nearer to one thing like 85 wins. Possibly choosing the Dodgers to win the World Sequence is dishonest, however that is what you get whenever you put as a lot cash into the lineup as they’ve.

Dayn Perry: Clarification? I picked the workforce I thought of to be the most effective in every division to win that division. Then I picked the groups I thought of to be the most effective among the many non-division winners because the wild-card entrants. Within the postseason, the outcomes of that are in massive measure decided by randomness, I picked groups that sounded cheap to me on the time for causes ample unto myself. That’s my clarification for that which is self-explanatory. 

Stephen Pianovich: The title window stays yanked open in Philly by the fingers of a dinger-happy lineup that also has room on their ring fingers. Can this workforce actually sneak in by way of the wild card after which knock off an NL juggernaut (or two) within the playoffs once more? For no matter purpose, half of us consider. As do the hardworking trash collectors of western Florida.

Matt Snyder: There’s completely little doubt that the Dodgers are going to win the NL West, however I assumed it could be boring to take them to win the NL. Plus, the most effective regular-season workforce hasn’t come out of the NL in a full season since 2017. I’ve stated every of the final two postseasons that the Phillies are way more constructed for a playoff run than for the common season and I’ve acquired that coming totally to fruition this time round with them profitable all of it. On the AL aspect, as soon as the Orioles traded for Corbin Burnes (who hits free company after this season), I used to be offered. It isn’t essentially simply with the roster at current, it is that Mike Elias could have the power to be aggressive in including something they want in entrance of the commerce deadline.