An AL West team gets surprising prediction in latest ESPN piece
Amongst a very strong conference, there is a surprising team predicted to make a trip to the World Series.
An AL West team gets surprising prediction in latest ESPN piece originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . Baseball's biggest day has finally arrived, as the 2026 Major League Baseball season is about to get underway on Wednesday night.
All of the predictions and projections, rumors and transactions have all come down to this. Now, it is time to play ball. In the latest and nearly final prediction piece by ESPN , they highlight every major award winner and their experts take on who will lift the Commisioner's trophy at the end of it all.
It should come as no surprise that the Los Angeles Dodgers get the nod to complete their three-peat, but there is a surprise coming out of the American League. Even with the best division in baseball, the AL East, and the sleeper AL Central, ESPN predicts that the American League pennant will belong to a team in the West. Namely, the Seattle Mariners , who narrowly won the first AL pennant in their franchise history last season.
Why Seattle? The question is rather, why not Seattle? The American League championship runner-ups are a solid lineup, front to back with power and youth to back it up.