ESPN sage Jayson Stark picks the Twins to win it all:

What they've built, says one American League scout, is a system that has turned them into "the Patriots of baseball."

Think about it.

The team is always bigger than any individual.

The payroll is always modest.

They're the best in the business defensively.

And the system works -- relentlessly plugging talent into whatever holes are vacated by the players who move on every year.

Sound familiar?

Jim Souhan, too, is full of happy tingly feelings while Patrick Reusse picks Cleveland. But don't be so hard on him. That's what he does. We have a spiel. Batgirl tells stories and has contests and the like. Patrick Reusse, well, picks Cleveland.