This offseason, we’ve already looked at how much error there is in team projections. The natural follow-up is to dream on the coming season in a way that maybe those projections can’t or won’t.



The aim here is not to be correct 10 times. The aim is to be correct three times, but in a way that is more impressive than being safe and correct 10 times. And, really, the aim is to stretch our minds to try to pre-perceive the weird stuff that happens in the course of a season. That weird stuff, of course, is called life.



So, here are 10 bold predictions. Seven will likely look silly in October. But it’s fun to think about which three will look sage.



1. Of the youngest teams, the Phillies are the readiest to succeed and will outperform their projections by seven wins or more.



There’s no doubt that the Phillies are young. They have the second-youngest lineup in the game; their staff is ninth-youngest. Here are how the...