Welcome to the 2014 SLAENT Major League Baseball OT presented by Derek Jeter's oral herpes cream.

Required reading:

I’ve written this before: I never argue with people who say baseball is boring, because baseball is boring. And then, suddenly, it isn’t. And that’s what makes it great.
Fire Joe Morgan

Nerd stuff:
Sabremetrics 101.
Tom Tango's Sabremetrics 101 series.
The Sabremetric Wiki
The Fangraphs glossary of terms
Wikipedia on Sampling bias.
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler's_fallacy]Wikipedia on the Gambler's fallacy

Fun stuff:
The Tootblan tracker.
Bugs Bunny, Greatest Banned Player ever.

And one last link:
MLB Trade Rumors Free Agent tracker. Useful if you forgot who signed where and how many ridiculous 10 year contracts were handed out.


Anywho, we are a bit late as the season is a day old (or 3 days old if you're the Los Angeles Dodgers) but Baseball is back! America's past time and the best way to spend a summer afternoon this side of watching paint dry!

Consensus predictions:
AL
East: Boston Red Sox
Central: Detroit Tigers
West: Oakland A's
WC1: Tampa Rays
WC2: Texas/Cleveland

NL
East: Washington Natinals
Central: St. Louis Cardinals
West: Los Angeles Dodgers
WC1: Pittsburgh Pirates
WC2: Atlanta Barves
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