The long major league baseball season is over, and now it's time for the postseason.
October looks to be a very exciting month. Six of the eight teams in the playoffs are original franchises, though not all are still where they started. The Atlanta Braves originally began in Boston with a stop in Milwaukee in between, and the Minnesota Twins began as the original version Washington Senators.
The Texas Rangers were the second Washington Senators that started 1961, moving to the Lone Star State in 1972.
This was a great season, the pendulum continued its swing back to the centre.
Pitching was much better, as evidenced by the number of 1-0 games, the highest in years. Former Blue Jay Roy Halladay didn't miss a beat moving to the National League, winning a league high 21 games for the Philadelphia Phillies.
He will probably rack up the Cy Young award in the senior circuit.
The Blue Jays had an 85-77 record, better than most thought they would.
The emergence of Jose Bautista, who hit a league-high 54 round trippers, and the team hitting 257 dingers, was a big part of the equation. .
Some good young arms on the staff, and its possible the Jays could only be a a few players away from being a serious contender in 2011.
Here's my bold predictions: Look for Tampa and San Francisco to end up battling it out at the end in the World Series.
However it turns out, there are few things better in sports than baseball in October.
