10.07
AL East: Red Sox Yankees
NL East: Phillies Phillies
AL Central: Indians Twins
NL Central: Cubs Cardinals
AL West: Oakland LA Angels
NL West: Dodgers Dodgers
AL Wild Card: Rays Red Sox
NL Wild Card: Mets Rockies
ALDS: Red Sox over Indians/Oakland over Rays
NLDS: Phillies over Dodgers/Cubs over Mets
ALCS: Oakland over Red Sox
NLCS: Phillies over Cubs
World Series: Phillies over Oakland
Cy Young: AL Roy Halladay NL Cole Hamels Grienke (Halladay 2nd), Broxton
MVP: AL Kevin Youkilis NL Chase Utley
1. Raul Ibanez will be better in 2009 than Pat Burrell was in 2008. Ibanex .272/34/93, Burrell .250/33/86
2. Jason Bay will hit more HR than David Ortiz. Jason Bay 36, Ortiz 28.
3. Rocco Baldelli will hit over .300 .253
4. Ichiro Suzuki will not. .352
5. Matt Holliday will be the AL Batting Champ. He doesn’t even play in the AL anymore.
6. Albert Pujols will be the NL Batting Champ. Hanley Ramirez
7. Jason Varitek will hit better than .275 .209
8. Barry Bonds will play at least one game this year. Nope.
9. Kansas City will finish 3rd in the Central. 4th not even close to 3rd.
10. CC Sabathia will finish the season with an ERA over 4.00 3.37
11. CC Sabathia will have double digit losses. 8
12. AJ Burnett will have an ERA over 4.00 4.04
13. Jake Peavy will not be a Padre after the trading deadline. White Sox
14. Detroit will be competitive until the last week of the season. They played in game 163, how’s that for competitive?
15. Grady Sizemore will hit better than .300/30/90 He only played in 106 games, so he obviously missed HR and RBI, but I have no excuse for .300 .248/18/64
16. A current MLB player will die in an off field incident. Nick Adenhart.
17. There will be a perfect game in 2009. Mark Buehrle 7/23/09
18. The NL will win the All Star Game. AL won 4-3. At least it was close.
19. Matt Weiters will give the O’s fans hope for the future. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJVDiXhsDf4
20. Boston will allow the fewest runs in the majors. 11th. Ouch.
21. Boston will score the most runs in the majors. 3rd. So close.
22. Bobby Cox will be ejected at least 10 times this season. I can’t find official records, but I believe the number is 16.
23. ARod will not reach 100 games played. 124.
24. Dice K will win 20 games. 4. Wow.
25. No team in the NL West will finish over .500 3 did it this year.
Not including post season awards and winners, that makes me 9/25. I think I’ll stop with the predictions next year. I actually had football predictions lined up to post, but judging by my baseball list, which I’m probably better at, I’ll leave the football picks alone.