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AL East
Yankees
Red Sox
Blue Jays
Devil Rays
Orioles
AL Central
Chicago
Minnesota (WC)
Cleveland
Detroit
KC
AL West
Oakland
Angels
Seattle
Texas
MVP: AROD
CY: Harden
ROY: Liriano
NL East
Mets
Braves (WC)
Phillies
Washington
Florida
NL Central
Cards
Cubs
Brewers
Astros
Reds
Pirates
NL West
San Diego
San Fran
LA
Arizona
Colorado
MVP: Wright
CY: Peavy
ROY: Hermidia
World Series: Mets over As
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I'll hold off until after the World Baseball Classic.
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pussy.
Why don't you hold off until SI puts out their preview issue.
Better yet, why not wait until the All Star Break.
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how bout I just not do one at all like I do every year?
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AL East
Red Sox
Yankees (WC)
Blue Jays
Devil Rays
Orioles
AL Central
Chicago
Minnesota
Cleveland
Detroit
KC
AL West
Oakland
Angels
Texas
Seattle
MVP: Ortiz
CY: Buehrle
ROY: Hansen
NL East
Mets
Braves (WC)
Phillies
Washington
Florida
NL Central
Cards
Brewers
Astros
Cubs
Reds
Pirates
NL West
San Diego
LA
San Fran
Arizona
Colorado
MVP: Wright
CY: Dontrelle
ROY: Zimmerman
World Series: Mets over Red Sox
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your guttsiest (sp? even word??) prediction is saying the devil rays wont be in last
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fine, here's my prediction.
Yankees win 120 games, the AL East, and the pennant, and move on to win the World Series 4-0 against the Pittsburg Pirates.
No other teams matter.
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galt, what have the twins done this offseason to become better and warrant a prediction of a WC team.
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They replaced Joe Mays and his 5.6 ERA with Francisco Liriano, who is a monster.
They actually got a 2B in Luis Castillo
Liriano, Santana, Radke, and Silva will be (in regards to ERA) probably the best foursome in the AL (Harden, Zito, Haren & Blanton will be close)
Luis Castilla, though he doesn't run anymore is still a solid leadoff hitter. HE is known (rightfully) as a little slap hitter. But Minnesota's offense was so bad last year, that his .760 OPS would have been forth best on the team
Additionally,
Morneau had a putrid season last year, and everyone thinks he's much better,
Rondell White is underrated, and especially now that he's DH, should be able to avoide the injury bug.
Torii Hunter was hurt for almost half the year.
I think Joe Mauer is ready for a breakout season.
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i think the only way their offense really improves is if mauer has the breakout everyone has been expecting for two years.
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Well adding white cancels out Jaque Jones and Castillo is a billion times better than that chump Punto they had their last year. And if we assume Morneau gets back to the production he had two years ago, it's a pretty good upgrade.
And Mauer was awesome two years ago before he got hurt.
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it's almost as silly as when people make stupid picks like Britney Spears in the death pool.
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this year is now - or was that last year?
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is donny baseball still on the bench?
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of course he is, I wish he was playing 1st tho.
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