MLB Futures: Best Bets for Team Win Totals (2021)

Predicting win totals for the 2021 MLB season is an interesting exercise after 2020. Last season was so strange that we essentially have to throw most of it out when attempting to project wins for 2021. A 60 game sample is practically a third of a season, and things started up before getting shut down for multiple months. Once baseball was up and running, it was a mess. Players had to miss games, entire teams were shut down for weeks at a time, and the game felt like a shell of its usual self.

COVID is still here, but MLB is eyeing a full season in 2021. The NBA and NHL successfully completed their postseason bubbles and are back up and running with their own full seasons, and the NFL just played an entire season without having to cancel a single game. And despite persistent bickering between the MLB and the MLB Players Association, Spring Training is upon us.

As for what to expect in 2021, the Dodgers are the team to beat after winning the World Series in 2020 and adding Trevor Bauer to their rotation this offseason. But after them, it’s pretty wide open. The Yankees can still hit with the best of them, Padres have been gearing up for a run for two years now, the Braves are just as good as they were last season (on paper), and Steve Cohen’s new-look Mets have entered the conversation.