Looking Back At My Pre-Season Predictions 100 Games In

Hot on the heels of giving those darn Red Sox credit (Giving The Bad Guys Their Due) for their amazing 2013 season and on my earlier post where I went back to look at my predictions after 30 games (A View of the Standings Almost 30 Games Into 2013) here I go looking at my predictions with a little more than 100 games played in the season.

Here is what the standings currently look like as the afternoon of July 23 (Courtesy of Yahoo Sports):

American League
East	W	L	Pct	GB	Home	Road	RS	RA	Diff	Streak	L10
Boston Red Sox	60	41	.594	--	33-18	27-23	512	424	+88	Lost 1	6-4
Tampa Bay Rays	59	41	.590	0.5	34-19	25-22	468	400	+68	Won 6	9-1
Baltimore Orioles	57	43	.570	2.5	29-20	28-23	485	444	+41	Won 5	8-2
New York Yankees	52	47	.525	7.0	28-23	24-24	387	392	-5	Lost 2	4-6
Toronto Blue Jays	45	53	.459	13.5	25-25	20-28	444	470	-26	Lost 5	2-8
Central	W	L	Pct	GB	Home	Road	RS	RA	Diff	Streak	L10
Detroit Tigers	54	44	.551	--	29-19	25-25	493	399	+94	Won 2	5-5
Cleveland Indians	52	47	.525	2.5	30-19	22-28	466	438	+28	Lost 1	6-4
Kansas City Royals	45	51	.469	8.0	24-24	21-27	375	391	-16	Lost 2	3-7
Minnesota Twins	42	54	.438	11.0	23-24	19-30	390	441	-51	Won 1	5-5
Chicago White Sox	39	57	.406	14.0	21-23	18-34	365	425	-60	Lost 1	5-5
West	W	L	Pct	GB	Home	Road	RS	RA	Diff	Streak	L10
Oakland Athletics	58	41	.586	--	30-15	28-26	440	376	+64	Won 2	6-4
Texas Rangers	55	44	.556	3.0	28-22	27-22	421	402	+19	Won 1	3-7
Seattle Mariners	47	52	.475	11.0	26-25	21-27	401	443	-42	Won 7	7-3
Los Angeles Angels	46	51	.474	11.0	26-27	20-24	439	445	-6	Lost 2	4-6
Houston Astros	33	65	.337	24.5	17-36	16-29	368	524	-156	Lost 6	1-9
National League
East	W	L	Pct	GB	Home	Road	RS	RA	Diff	Streak	L10
Atlanta Braves	56	43	.566	--	31-15	25-28	430	355	+75	Won 1	5-5
Philadelphia Phillies	49	50	.495	7.0	26-21	23-29	388	434	-46	Lost 2	6-4
Washington Nationals	48	51	.485	8.0	27-22	21-29	367	392	-25	Lost 4	2-8
New York Mets	43	52	.453	11.0	19-29	24-23	395	422	-27	Lost 1	6-4
Miami Marlins	36	61	.371	19.0	21-27	15-34	309	405	-96	Won 1	4-6
Central	W	L	Pct	GB	Home	Road	RS	RA	Diff	Streak	L10
St. Louis Cardinals	59	37	.615	--	29-17	30-20	477	348	+129	Won 1	7-3
Pittsburgh Pirates	58	39	.598	1.5	32-18	26-21	373	328	+45	Won 2	5-5
Cincinnati Reds	56	43	.566	4.5	32-17	24-26	436	360	+76	Won 1	6-4
Chicago Cubs	44	53	.454	15.5	22-26	22-27	397	410	-13	Won 1	5-5
Milwaukee Brewers	41	57	.418	19.0	25-27	16-30	381	439	-58	Lost 1	5-5
West	W	L	Pct	GB	Home	Road	RS	RA	Diff	Streak	L10
Los Angeles Dodgers	51	47	.520	--	27-23	24-24	389	388	+1	Won 4	8-2
Arizona Diamondbacks	51	48	.515	0.5	27-21	24-27	407	401	+6	Lost 1	4-6
Colorado Rockies	48	52	.480	4.0	28-23	20-29	441	437	+4	Lost 1	5-5
San Francisco Giants	45	53	.459	6.0	27-22	18-31	385	435	-50	Lost 2	5-5
San Diego Padres	44	56	.440	8.0	27-23	17-33	397	458	-61	Won 1	4-6
x-Clinched Playoff Spot; y-Division Champ Last updated Tuesday, Jul 23, 2013 1:16 pm EDT

If the season ended today, my predictions would still be off. LOL. In the AL East, the Red Sox and Blue Jays went and screwed up by playing against expectations. (Rays, Orioles, Blue Jays, Yankees and Red Sox). In the Central, the Indians and White Sox have screwed me over (Tigers, White Sox, Royals, Indians and Twins). In the West, we all know how bad the Angels have played so in doing so they ruined the order of my predictions (Angels, Rangers, Oakland, Mariners, Astros).

In my last post, I was doing better with the predictions so let's see where we stand now. In the NL East, the Nationals are really taking a helluva nose dive both in the standings and in my predictions (Nationals, Braves, Phillies, Mets and Marlins). In the Central, those pesky Pirates are disrupting the order I came up with (Cardinals, Reds, Pirates, Brewers and Cubs). In the wild and wooly West, where it seems like no one wants to win the division everything is just head over heels in terms of what I predicted except for Padres who are in last place (Giants, Dodgers, Diamondbacks, Rockies and Padres).

Luckily for me I don't make a living off of prognosticating Baseball standings. We'll see how things end up before I tap out.

Sisco Kid