2008 Season Predictions!

[browntown653]

NICK THE STICK

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[love_that_reefer]

5. Marlins - Hmm. Who's on this team? Han-Ram...Dan Uggly...Mike Jacobs...Jeremy Hermida...*ring ring* Why yes Mr. Loria, I am free this baseball season!

You forgot Josh Willingham, Andrew Miller and Cameron Maybin.

[Porter]

I think the Marlins will be good in 2-3 years. But they will take their lumps this season.

[Kingdom]

In 2-3 years they'll be ready to dump Uggla, Willingham, and Hermida

[Porter]

well they have to win a WS before that happens lol.

[Kingdom]

This coming from a guy who picked the Padres to finish first. Where's there offense?

Ahhh touche.
SD is stuck in a very deep division and even though they have a couple of good pitchers, so do the dbacks, dodgers, giants, and rockies.

[HollywoodLeo]

I think it's funny how Dry pretty much predicted an almost exact duplicate of the 2007 season for the NL

Any rate

AL EAST
1. Red Sox
2. Yankees
3. Rays (That's right)
4. Blue Jays
5. Orioles

AL Central
1. Tigers
2. Indians
3. White Sox
4. Twins
5. Royals

AL West
1. Angels
2. Mariners (WC)
3. A's
4. Rangers

ALDS
Angels over Red Sox
Tigers over Mariners

ALCS
Angels over Tigers

NL East
1. Mets
2. Phillies
3. Braves
4. Nationals
5. Marlins

NL Central
1. Brewers
2. Reds
3. Cubs
4. Cardinals
5. Astros
6. Pirates

NL West
1. Padres
2. Dodgers (WC)
3. Diamond Backs
4. Rockies
5. Giants

NLDS
Mets over Dodgers
Padres over Brewers

NLCS
Padres over Mets

WS
Padres over Angels

(I'm being a homer and I don't care)

[realmofotalk]

The Rockies in fourth place? Even after you had declared them as the better team between them and the Padres?

[HollywoodLeo]

I think you missed the portion of the referenced discussion where I was talking about last year.

[HollywoodLeo]

That being said, 4th place in the NL West is kinda deceiving.

I think every team in the NL West is going to be super competitive this year and be in the race till the very end, with the exception of the Giants.

[realmofotalk]

It was convenient timing after the Rockies eliminated the Padres for you and your fellow SD fans to praise the Rockies as though you believed that they were the better team all along. And now, you hang a U-turn and tab the Padres as three better than the Rockies, even though all the Rockies lost were Josh Fogg, Latroy Hawkins, and Kazuo Matsui.

[NYgiantsfan5689]

wow Hollywood. you have the Mariners winning the wild card and the Yankees missing the playoffs? i can feasibly see the latter of those 2 happening, but definatly not the former. the mariners will not make the playoffs.

[HollywoodLeo]

Regardless of your opinion on what makes one team better than another for any particular year, you're still overlooking the fact that that's last year (as opposed to these 2008 season predictions)

It's a new season, every player is a year older, last year's rookies have a year of experience under their belt (I don't expect Kouzmanoff to start the first two months with a .100 average this year) and the rosters are a bit different.

The Padres have a new center fielder, most likely a new left fielder as well, a new 2nd baseman, and 2/5ths of their starting rotation is different.

Whether or not these changes make them better or worse remains to be seen, but the point is they're not going to be the exact same team they were last year.

(and, as I openly admitted, I was being a homer with my picks.)

If last year's outcome determined who's better than who they may as well just cancel all the games and declare the Rockies NL champs right now.

[HollywoodLeo]

wow Hollywood. you have the Mariners winning the wild card and the Yankees missing the playoffs? i can feasibly see the latter of those 2 happening, but definatly not the former. the mariners will not make the playoffs.

The Mariners came pretty damn close to winning the WC and kicking the Yankees out of the playoffs before they had Eric Bedard in their rotation.

[realmofotalk]

Yes, players change and teams change year in and year out. I understand all that. But it is also my understanding that you're basically backing away from your argument that the Rockies are better than every other team in the West and now calling them a fluke.