Since I did so well with the March Madness picks, now is as good a time as any to make my pre-season baseball predictions.
NL East:
Phillies: Probably the only 90+ win team in the division.
Braves: Should win 85+.
Mets: .500 would be a good bounce back year for this club.
Marlins: Around .500 would be great, more likely less than 80 wins.
Nationals: 72 wins and 30 starts for Stephen Strasburg, all at home.
NL Central:
Cardinals: Another 90+ win season.
Cubs: Better than .500, but probably not 90+ wins.
Brewers: .500 would be a good season here.
Reds: maybe a 75 win season.
Astros: also looking like a 75 win team.
Pirates: the battle is to not lose 100.
NL West:
Giants: Have to do it. 90 wins should take the division. Do-able, but it won't be pretty.
Dodgers: High 80 to 90 win potential here. Wild-card.
D-Backs: Mid to upper 80 wins.
Rockies: Maybe mid 80's win total tops.
Padres: Mid 70 wins.
AL East:
Yankees: Will threaten 100 wins
Rays: 90 to 95 wins and a wild-card berth
Red Sox: Should top 90 wins, won't be enough. Sucks to be the Sawks.
Blue Jays: 70 wins, will feel like 80 after the conversion to metric.
Orioles: 70 wins, may challenge the Jays to escape the basement.
AL Central:
White Sox: High 80's wins, should give an assist to Joe Nathan's elbow.
Twins: Will still find a way to win 85.
Tigers: No bailout for this Detroit franchise.
Royals: Maybe mid 70's wins, some good young talent emerging.
Indians: May lose 95-100, WTF happened here?
AL West:
Angels: 85 wins, should be enough in a very balanced division.
Rangers: Low 80's wins.
Mariners: Low 80's wins.
A's: Somebody needs to write a book about how smart they look post Zito-Hudson-Mulder.
AL Playoffs:
Yankees over Angles.
Rays over White Sox.
NL Playoffs:
Phillies over Dodgers
Giants over Cardinals
You can see where this is going, right?
AL Championship:
Rays over Yankees, Steinbrenner's have multiple coronary events.
NL Championship:
Giants stomp the daylights out of the Phillies, setting up, YES, my ultimate World Series for 2010. The Giants and the Rays.
In that match-up - the Giants sweep the Rays, four straight.
GO GIANTS!!!
OK Charlie...here are my predictions for the 2011 mlb season.
ReplyDeleteI'll start with the minor leagues:
AL East-Red Sox
AL Central-White Sox
AL West-A's
Wild Card-Rangers
A's beat White Sox
Red Sox beat Rangers
A's over Red Sox for minor league pennant
Now, on to the Majors...
NL East-Phillies
NL Central-Brewers (yeah, I'm a homer)
NL West-Giants
Wild Card-Braves
Giants beat Brewers
Phillies beat Braves
Phillies over Giants for NL Pennant
Phillies win World Series over A's
Let the games begin!
Aggressive pick with A's. Not only to win the division over Texas but to go all the way.
ReplyDeleteKudos on the minor league pennant comment. Couldn't have said it better myself.
A's - Rangers and Giants - Rockies are almost mirror images of each other.
It seems as if the Rangers and Rockies are built to pound the ball and score and let the pitching hold the opponent under the mark the offense sets.
The Giants and A's pitch and play defense and hope the offense can score enough to get over the mark set by the pitchers.
So the A's to repeat the Giants formula of 2010 would really be something for the "other" bay area.
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