It's That Time of year again which means my predicitons for the upcoming Major League Baseball Season which, in case you live under a rock, begins tomorrow at 1pm EST ....
*-denotes playoff team
AL EAST
Boston Red Sox*
Tampa Bay Rays*
New York Yankees
Toronto Blue Jays
Baltimore Orioles
AL CENTRAL
Detroit Tigers*
Minnesota Twins
Chicago White Sox
Kansas City Royals
Cleveland Indians
(almost assuredly going to be wrong on this one ....)
AL WEST
Texas Rangers*
Los Angeles Angels
Seattle Mariners
Oakland Athletics
(those last two are interchangeable I guess. But a Mariners fan read the rave I did on this last year and was disappointed I buried them in the basement. Consider this me throwing you the proverbial bone here. Thanks for reading ...)
NL EAST
Philadelphia Phillies*(like every other year ... BORING)
Florida Marlins
Atlanta Braves (yeah Bobby Cox is THAT big of a deal)
Washington Nationals
New York Mets
NL CENTRAL
St. Louis Cardinals*
Cincinnati Reds*
Milwaukee Brewers
Chicago Cubs
Houston Astros
Pittsburgh Pirates (best Pitcher is Paul Maholm ... nuff said)
NL WEST
San Francisco Giants* (leaner & meaner Panda ... nuff said)
Colorado Rockies
Los Angeles Dodgers
San Diego Padres
Arizona Diamondbacks
AL CHAMPION
Boston Red Sox
NL CHAMPION
Philadelphia Phillies
WORLD SERIES CHAMPION
Philadelphia Phillies (okay, if the FOURTH guy ... im gunna pause to let you grasp
the weight of the Caps on that word .... you face in a best of
seven series is Cole Hamels. I mean come on. Not fair.)