Baseball Oracle

#1
So it's spring, and it's baseball season once again. Didn't the Angels JUST win the World Series? How can it be baseball season already?

Well, with a new season comes the chance to throw in, from the very begining, your predictions for how the local teams are going to do. And hey! Whilest your at it, throw in predictions for the whole league!

This won't be TRULY fun till September, when we look back at these guesses and check in to see if we were near Delphian Oracles, or merely hacks who had no insight into the Baseball Gods and merely gave out meaningless, and empty predictions that fell totally short of the mark.

Why don't I start it off?

LOCAL TEAMS:

NY YANKS: Will will 105 games, but will lose in the AL Championship Series cuz their bullpen is CRAP. Unless they trade for a bullpen stud (very likely), and then they go all the way

NY METS: Will win 85-87 games...and will mercillessly tease us fans with the THOUGHT of going to the playoffs, and will instead fall apart totally in Septmeber as we see the Phillies win 101 games and saunter into the postseason.


AROUND THE LEAGUE:
(Post Season Predictions):
NL EAST
Phillies

NL CENTRAL
St.Louis

NL WEST
SF Giants

NL WILDCARD
'Stros


AL EAST
NY Yanks

AL CENTRAL
Twins

AL WEST
Oakland

AL WILDCARD
Angels


NL breakthrough players
Jose Reyes - Mets
Sean Burroughs - Padres
K Benson - Pirates
J Encuarcion - Marlins
A Boone - Reds
A Kearns - Reds
A Ramirez - Pirates
Prior- Cubs



AL breakthrough players
Crawford - Drays
Bocelli - Drays
Hillenbrand - Red Sox
Millar - Red Sox
Giambi - Red Sox
Phelps - Toronto
Lilly - A's



Yes. Im a baseball geek. And I only started following it when I was 15! Isn't there a theory about things your were obsessed with in your teens sticking with you when you are an adult? (music, the peope you had crushes on, sports teams , places you travelled to...)


FEEL FREE To keep adding your baseball predictions. Let's see in September who was right, wrong, or just plain, um, silly.
 
#4
DURAZO

Yeah I forgot Durazo. Total MVP. Good catch Jon.

Anyone want to vote for WORST MOVES made this winter?

How about:
Mets not trading Alomar?
Mets not getting Hampton?
Dbacks trading Durazo?
Expos trading Colon? (mlb's fault)
Marlins paying for Hampton to play for Braves?
the list goes on...


Saddest things to happen: that orioles pitcher and effedra. Griffey going down AGAIN. Tampa bay in general. Expos in Puerto Rico (I support MLB being played in other countries, whether it be Canada, Mexico, PR....But I just hear the conditions at that stadium are ancient and bad...It's going to be a shock for some of these pampered, 21st century players....It will be like baseball in another era....)
 
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