Feb 14: So hard to predict

FEBRUARY 14, 2013 | FLORIDA & ARIZONA – It being mid February, 2013, spring training was starting all over Florida and Arizona, so too were the predictions. Below are BleacherReport.com‘s predictions for the 2013 regular season. How accurate were they? Not very:

BleacherReport.com 2013 Predictions
American League
MVP: PREDICTION: Albert Pujols ACTUAL: Miguel Cabrera
Cy Young: PREDICTION: Chris Sale ACTUAL: Max Scherzer
ROY: PREDICTION: Dylan Bundy ACTUAL: Will Myers

National League
MVP: PREDICTION: Bryce Harper ACTUAL: Andrew McCutchen
Cy Young: PREDICTION: Cliff Lee ACTUAL: Clayton Kershaw 
ROY: PREDICTION: Kolten Wong ACTUAL: Jose Fernandez

Not a single prediction was right. Individual award predictions are probably more difficult than team predictions because you never know how an individual will react. But it’s fun watching.

Contributing Sources:
BleacherReport 2014 MVP, CY and ROY award predictions 
Rookie of the year award winners 
MVP & Cy Young award winners 

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Bill Grimes

I'm from Chicago. I worked in broadcast journalism for much of the 1970's and 80's. In 1990 I became a litigation consultant, retiring in 2017. Around 2005 I recall flipping through the sports section of the newspaper coming across "On this day in baseball history Willie Mays hit his 600th home run." I enjoyed the one-liners, but I wanted more. I wanted a story. I took my news reporting skills and started researching and telling baseball stories, one for every day of the year. TodayinBaseball.com is the result.