None picked the real champions of the division that year—the New York Yankees—and nobody could have predicted Boston to fall to pieces like it did that September.
Those "experts" apparently didn't learn their lesson. Most of them picked the Toronto Blue Jays, this year's version of the 2011 Red Sox, to win the AL East crown. Meanwhile barely any of them picked the Yankees to make the playoffs once more.
Of course, given all the moves that the Jays made and the injuries the Yankees have sustained for the last several months, you couldn't ...
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Through About 40 Games, the AL East Is Clearly There for Taking for Yankees
class="ui-droppable">Going into the 2011 season, 45 of 45 so-called experts on ESPN predicted the Boston Red Sox would win the American League East crown.