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Originally Posted by alnorth
To be fair, we have been the trendy dark horse pick the last couple years. We haven't been seriously picked to do huge things, but everyone always lists a "team to watch out for", and it always seemed to be the Royals, and a couple writers who wanted to seem hip or thinking out of the box would pick the Royals to win the Central or a Wild Card every year.
This year though it really could happen so the floodgates are really opening, they still aren't favored by the media, but I'm seeing at least 1/3 and maybe almost 1/2 of writers penciling them in for at least a wild card. So, we are being paid attention to, especially with our strong 2nd half last year and with Ace Ventura.
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For years we had the #1 farm system in the league, and everybody kind of started assuming that would pay dividends at some point.