The Red Sox’ season is over, even if Major League Baseball’s postseason is just heating up. That means it’s a good time to look back at our staff predictions from late March — and assess how we did.
As always, this exercise is a humbling one. Even two Red Sox beat writers, a Red Sox columnist and a general sports columnist at a major publication make mistakes. We got some things right, though, too. So how did we do?
AMERICAN LEAGUE PLAYOFF PICTURE:
DIVISION WINNERS:
COTILLO: Yankees, Royals, Rangers
MASON: Orioles, Royals, Rangers
MCADAM: Yankees, Royals, Rangers
SMITH: Yankees, Tigers, Rangers
VAUTOUR: Yankees, Tigers, Rangers
WILD-CARD TEAMS:
COTILLO: Red Sox, Astros, Blue Jays
MASON: Red Sox, Mariners, Yankees
MCADAM: Red Sox, Orioles, Mariners
SMITH: Red Sox, Mariners, O