5 Bold Predictions For The MLB Season
The Lead
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🗓️ 7 April 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
After all the chaos of the lockout, and the sprint through an abbreviated spring training, Major League Baseball’s Opening Day is here. To get ready for the season, we’re joined by The Athletic’s Eno Sarris, who breaks down five bold predictions for 2022, including his expectations for the always-overachieving Tampa Bay Rays, and the wildly intriguing — but often injured — Twins outfielder Byron Buxton. Also on this episode: an almost 40-year-old with 40-plus homers in sight, and Eno's picks to win the American League, National League, and World Series.
Read Eno Sarris’s bold predictions for 2022: https://theathletic.com/3187448/2022/03/25/sarris-ten-bold-predictions-for-a-wacky-mlb-season/?source=theleadpodcast
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| 0:31.8 | After all the chaos of the lockout and the sprint of a quick spring training, Major League |
| 0:36.5 | Baseball and its brightest stars are back. |
| 1:03.0 | Today, on opening day of the new season, the Athletics Enocerus gives us five bold predictions |
| 1:09.2 | for the wild year ahead, including an under-the-radar MVP contender and an almost 40-year-old with |
| 1:16.2 | 40 home runs in sight. |
| 1:17.8 | I told Joyboto I saw him this spring, I said, I'm bold predicting you for 40 homeers this |
| 1:22.2 | year. |
| 1:23.2 | He said, you know what? |
| 1:25.0 | That's not that bold kid. |
| 1:27.3 | From Wondering in the Athletic, I'm Tiffany Oshinsky. |
| 1:29.9 | This Thursday, April 7th, and this is the lead. |
| 1:35.7 | So Ena, we're going to get to your bold predictions in just a second, but first, as anyone knows |
| 1:41.6 | who reads your stuff, you are not only a baseball expert, but a beer expert as well. |
| 1:48.6 | And you recently wrote a story about pairing beers with players for fantasy drafts. |
| 1:53.2 | So with this being opening day, do you have a suggested beer pairing for opening day 2022? |
| 1:59.5 | Oh, man, just for the opening day, it's interesting because it's not quite summer yet. |
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