Baseball Predictions

[Capper]

Those of you who know me personally, know my real passion in life is baseball.....and with baseball season starting, me and a couple friends have put together a contest of predicting the 2008 MLB Season.....anyone here interested in taking part, feel free to post your predictions.

AL East
Boston Red Sox......................96-66
NY Yankees...........................92-70
Tampa Bay Devil Rays..............84-78
Toronto Blue Jays...................80-82
Baltimore Orioles.....................67-95

AL Central
Cleveland Indians...................94-68
Detroit Tigers........................93-69
Chicago White Sox.................77-85
Minnesota Twins....................75-87
KC Royals.............................70-92


AL West
Anaheim Angels.....................90-72
Texas Rangers.......................84-78
Oakland A's...........................80-82
Seattle Mariners.....................64-98


AL MVP........................Josh Hamilton
AL CY..........................CC Sabathia
AL ROY........................Adam Jones

NL East
NY Mets...........................95-67
Phil Phillies........................90-72
Atlanta Braves..................88-74
Florida Marlins...................70-92
Washington Nats................66-96

NL Central
Chicago Cubs...................94-68
Milwaukee Brewers............89-73
Cincinnati Red..................82-80
St Louis Cardinals.............78-84
Pittsburgh Pirates.............72-90
Houston Astros................70-92


NL West
LA Dodgers........................93-69
Arizona D'Backs..................92-70
Colorado Rockies................90-72
San Diego Padres................82-80
San Francisco Giants...........61-101

NL MVP.........................Chase Utley
NL CY............................Johan Santana
NL ROY..........................Justin Upton


NL Playoffs
Cubs over D'Backs
Dodgers over Mets

Cubs over Dodgers


AL Playoffs
Tigers over Red Sox
Indians over Angels

Indians over Tigers

World Series
Cleveland Indians over Chicago Cubs in 6 games

[stinger608]

I have a very sure baseball prediction for ya Cap!!!!

There will be a bunch of baseballs hit this season

[Capper]

and a lot of alcohol consumed at Stinger's place!!!!!

[Jokerswild]

none here

[Reloadron]

May it not come to this:

World Series
Cleveland Indians over NY Mets in 6 games

My life here is hell just when the Yankees are in town. Should the series come to the Mets and Indians I have to support the Mets.

Ron

[azianai]

Tigers have bigger holes than the yanks do, why does everyone think they gonna be that great. Their offense is on par or a little better than the yanks, but their pitching is worse, they have a worse bullpen with Rodney and Zumaya hurt, and Jones as shaky as Kyle Farnsworth is in a game that matters. I'd say AL East is Yanks (yes im a yankee fan but the redsox have the same unproven pitching past #1 that the yanks got), Central goes to the Indians, West to the Angels of Anaheim with the Wild Card the Red Sox. NL East is gonna go Mets (rebound year even though they suck), Central Brewers, West Rockies with the Braves as the Wild Card (proving that smoltz stays healthy). World Series as usual from NY it'll be Mets v Yankees, but in all honestly it'll probably be Yanks v Braves since the Mets'll just choke it away in the NL Championship.

[Capper]

The Tigers only weakness is their bullpen, they are a superior team to the Yankees, younger, and healthier.

[simple_inhibition]

Cleveland all the way. i wanna see them win a world series with my father

[Jokerswild]

none here

[azianai]

I don't see how the Tiger's starting Staff is superior to the Yanks if we want to use them as the barometer: Verlander's a stud, but he's equal in terms of wins to Wang (even though he's vastly better than Wang, Wang'll still be up for 19 wins which is what Verlander'll give you) so its a push there. Bonderman and Pettite? i'd take Pettite over Bonderman. Rodgers vs Hughes? i'd have to give it to Hughes. Robertson and Kennedy, i'll give it to Robertson only because of the experience factor. Mussina and Willis, I'd say a push there too because if you've seen Willis' stats in the past 2 yrs, it just seems he's declining, and don't forget those numbers were posted in the NL, which we can all agree is the pitcher friendly league.

Lineup? i'd say its a push or hell the yanks have the superior lineup. We can go by position, but i mean 3B, LF, CF as constituted right now are pushes. Cano's better than Polanco, at 1B i'd say the tigers have the advantage mainly because Giambi's a question mark still, but if he plays like he has in spring training, it'll be a push. Catcher i'd have to say posada's a better hitter than pudge (should get back on the juice and get pudgy again). DH is tigers because Sheffield is just better than Matsui. Right field Ordonez is better than Abreu. I'd say Jeter's better than Renteria at SS. And honestly if we wanna get technical, i'd take Arod over Cabrera at 3B. So its pretty much a push in terms of Offense.

Bullpen, both have questionmarks up to the 8th. If zumaya and rodney come back soon, then the tigers'll have the better middle relief, but Todd Jones imo is a VERY shaky closer. They'd be better off having Zumaya close. I'd take Joba and Mariano over Zumaya and Jones (maybe because of Jones)

btw Rich i agree with you, THANK GOD BASEBALL's Back, hopefully we can get some nice discussions here so im not bored outta my mind at work (which i still have to figure out how imma listen to the yankee game tomorrow at work...)