Totally Senseless Pre-Winter Meetings predictions
Just so we can all point and laugh at me in December 2010.
AL East champ: Yankees. Just because.
AL Central champ: Joe Mauer, contract year.
AL West champ: Texas. They’ve been close for a while, this should be their year.
Wild Card: Red Sox. Just because.
NL East champ: Atlanta. Love the rotation, love Heyward even more (he’s not staying in AAA for long–the offense needs the help). I expect Philly to hang around as the Wild Card, however.
NL Central champ: St. Louis Cardinals. Just can’t get my head around the Cubs or the Brewers.
NL West champ: Los Angelse Dodgers. While I worry about the pitching and Torre’s bullpen managing, I love Kemp and Eithier. A lot. Even if I can’t spell their names correctly.
Wild Card: San Francisco Giants. Pitching’s too good.
ALDS: Yankees over Rangers
Red Sox over Twins
NLDS: Atlanta over San Francisco
St. Louis over Los Angeles
ALCS Yankees over Red Sox
NLCS St Louis over Atlanta
WS Yankees over St Louis.
(This is a Yankee blog. I can’t pick against the Yankees).
AL MVP: Joe Mauer. Take 2009’s Mauer and give him a contract year. BOOM.
NL MVP: Hanley Ramirez. Because constantly saying Albert Pujols is boring.
AL Cy Young: King Felix, because constantly saying Zack Greinke is boring. And King Felix is really, really good.
NL Cy Young: Adam Wainwright. Just because.
4 Responses on Totally Senseless Pre-Winter Meetings predictions
If the Yankees would win and it would involve no Mariano Rivera blown saves because they make my heart hurt, I would be very, very, very pleased to see another epic, 7-game war, Yankees-Red Sox ALCS.
I really like these predictions (especially the Yankees winning the WS!), but I just have a few quibbles. First, I can’t see anyone but the Angels winning the AL West right now. Texas was hounded by injuries but I don’t think they would have pulled it out anyway. Though, if Lackey leaves the Angels… hmm.
Also…
“Wild Card: San Francisco Giants. Pitching’s too good.”
Offense’s (way) too bad. I can’t see Philly missing the postseason as long as Utley, Howard, etc. are in their primes, and now they have a genuine ace in Lee. If Hamels and Lidge bounce back (HUGE ifs), they are terrifying. If not, well, they’ll be close to the 2009 version of themselves, which was pret-tay darn good.
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Rebecca G. Reply:
December 6th, 2009 at 1:18 am
Couple points–
1st) The entire point here is that these predictions aren’t serious. Take ‘em with a grain of salt.
That said, Howard is a major concern–his strike out rates keep going up and while Hamels and Lee are good, the rest of the rotation’s a bit of a problem.
I’m a big fan of the Rangers’ system and I like the pieces they have more than the Angles, injuries notwithstanding, and the Angels just lost Figgins.
At any rate, we’ll know a lot more this time next month =)
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It might be boring to keep picking him, but at this point the NL MVP has to be considered to be Pujols’ award to lose.
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My, also laughable, picks:
AL East: Yankees, because we’re the best
AL Central: I’ll go Twinkies, not because of Mauer but because nobody’s clearly beter in that horrible division.
AL West: Texas, same reason as you
Wild Card: Hmmm…Red Sox OUT, Seattle in. They could end up having a really good pitching Felix if Felix does even better than the mind-blowingly good he did this season. I think they’ll improve their offense this offseason too. And the Red Sox offesne is only going to get worse, unless a big deal is made.
Nl East: Sorry, Phillies. Lee is too good, and I expect Hamels to have an above average year.
NL Central: Brewers, Carpenter will falter big and Wainwright won’t be quite as good
NL West: SanFran Giants. That pitching staff has the potential to be mind-bogglingly awesome.
Wild Card: I want to say Pittsburgh Pirates…but alas, not yet Pittsburgh fans. Colorado Rockies, the second half of last year they were better than the Dodgers. Start just a tad better and they win that division.
ALDS: Yanks over Texs, Twins over Seattle
ALCS: Yanks over Twins
NLDS: SanFran over Philly
Colorado over Brewers
NLCS: Colorado over SanFran
World Series: Yanks over Colorado
AL MVP: Josh Hamilton, carries Texas
NL MVP: Chase Utley, carries Philly
AL Cy Young: CC Sabathia (BOOOOM)
NL Cy Young: Josh Johnson
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