{"id":22470,"date":"2004-12-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-15T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/15\/baseball-predictions\/"},"modified":"2004-12-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-15T06:00:00","slug":"baseball-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/15\/baseball-predictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My prediction for the NL West of &#8217;05<\/p>\n<p><b>First place: SF Giants.<\/b> With the addition of Benitez as closer, Vizquel and Matheny for defense, the Giants should be able to eek out a few more wins.<br \/>\n<b>Second place: AZ D&#8217;backs.<\/b> If they manage to keep the Big Unit, they should do good. Glaus and Ortiz should be great additions for them.<br \/>\n<b>Third place: LA Dodgers.<\/b> They haven&#8217;t done much to improve the team in the off-season, and the loss of Finley can only hurt them. They will barely be above the Padres.<br \/>\n<b>Fourth place: SD Padres.<\/b> They lost Wells, and the Pad&#8217;s are never any good.<br \/>\n<b>Fifth place: CO Rockies. <\/b> Someone has to reside in the cellar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My prediction for the NL West of &#8217;05 First place: SF Giants. With the addition of Benitez as closer, Vizquel and Matheny for defense, the Giants should be able to eek out a few more wins. Second place: AZ D&#8217;backs. If they manage to keep the Big Unit, they should do good. Glaus and Ortiz &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/15\/baseball-predictions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Baseball predictions<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Fk3x-5Qq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}