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MLB 2005 Season Thread
Little early but gives us time to post predictions
NL EAST x-Florida Atlanta New York Philadelphia Washington NL CENTRAL x-St. Louis y-Chicago Houston Pittsburgh Cincinnati Milwaukee NL WEST x-San Francisco Los Angeles San Diego Arizona Colorado AL EAST x-New York y-Boston Toronto Baltimore Tampa Bay AL CENTRAL x-Minnesota Cleveland Detroit Chicago Kansas City AL WEST x-Los Angeles Seattle Oakland Texas Cardinals over Giants Marlins over Cubs Yankees over Twins Red Sox over Angels Cardinals over Marlins Yankees over Red Sox Yankees over Cardinals AL MVP: Adrain Beltre SEA NL MVP: Albert Pujols STL AL Cy Young: Barry Zito OAK Yeah you heard me NL Cy Young: Mark Prior CHI GO M'S |
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x-Florida New York Atlanta Philadelphia Washington NL CENTRAL x-St. Louis y-Chicago Milwaukee Houston Cincinnatti Pittsburgh NL WEST x-San Francisco Los Angeles San Diego Arizona Colorado AL EAST x-New York y-Boston Baltimore Tampa Bay Toronto AL CENTRAL x-Minnesota Cleveland Detroit Chicago Kansas City AL WEST x-Anaheim Seattle Texas Oakland Cardinals over Giants Marlins over Cubs Yankees over Twins Angels over Red Sox Cardinals over Marlins Yankees over Angels Yankees over Cardinals AL MVP: Vlad Guerrero ANA NL MVP: Albert Pujols STL AL Cy Young: Johan Santana MIN NL Cy Young: Pedro Martinez NYM (He will be big) |
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x-Florida Atlanta New York Philadelphia Washington NL CENTRAL x-Houston y-St. Louis Chicago Cincinnati Pittsburgh Milwaukee NL WEST x-Los Angeles San Francisco San Diego Colorado Arizona AL EAST x-New York y-Boston Baltimore Toronto Tampa Bay AL CENTRAL x-Minnesota Detroit Cleveland Kansas City Chicago AL WEST x-Anaheim Seattle Texas Oakland Dodgers over Cardinals Astros over Marlins Yankees over Angels Red Sox over Twins Astros over Marlins Red Sox over Yankees Red Sox over Astros I'm not going to guess the "league awards" cause I have no idea. Yeah, homer picked the Sox this time... although, I wouldn't be shocked to see either the Sox or Yanks miss the playoffs, relying on 39/40yr old guys as your "Ace/#1 pitcher" is a gamble. |
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x-Florida Atlanta New York Philadelphia Washington NL CENTRAL x-St. Louis y-Chicago Houston Cincinnati Pittsburgh Milwaukee NL WEST x-San Francisco Los Angeles San Diego Arizona Colorado AL EAST x-New York y-Boston Baltimore Toronto Tampa Bay AL CENTRAL x-Minnesota Cleveland Detroit Chicago Kansas City AL WEST x-Anaheim Texas Oakland Seattle Cardinals over Giants Cubs over Marlins Yankees over Twins Red Sox over Angels Cardinals over Cubs Yankees over Red Sox Yankees over Cardinals AL MVP: Alex Rodriguez NYY NL MVP: Albert Pujols STL AL Cy Young: Randy Johnson NYY NL Cy Young: Mark Prior CHI |
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x-Florida New York Atlanta Philadelphia Washington NL CENTRAL x-St. Louis y-Chicago Houston Cincinnatti Pittsburgh Milwaukee NL WEST x-San Francisco Los Angeles Arizona San Diego Colorado AL EAST x-New York y-Boston Baltimore Tampa Bay Toronto AL CENTRAL x-Minnesota Chicago Cleveland Detroit Kansas City AL WEST x-Anaheim Seattle Oakland Texas Cardinals over Giants Marlins over Cubs Yankees over Angels Red Sox over Twins Marlins over Cardinals Red Sox over Yankees Red Sox over Marlins AL MVP: Vlad Guerrero ANA NL MVP: Albert Pujols STL AL Cy Young: Curt Schilling BOS NL Cy Young: Mark Prior CHI |
just a little question for everyone, but do you think Toronto will be better or worse this year with the players they added (Hillenbrand and Koskie) even though they've lost Delgado?
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x-Atlanta Florida New York Philadelphia Washington NL CENTRAL x-St. Louis y-Chicago Houston Pittsburgh Cincinnati Milwaukee NL WEST x-San Francisco Arizona Los Angeles San Diego Colorado AL EAST x-New York y-Boston Toronto Baltimore Tampa Bay AL CENTRAL x-Cleveland Minnesota Chicago Detroit Kansas City AL WEST x-Anaheim Oakland Seattle Texas Cardinals over Giants Cubs over Braves Yankees over Twins Red Sox over Angels Cubs over Cardinals Red Sox over Yankees Cubs over Red Sox Total Homer :cool: |
VEL taking the Astros in the NL Central...interesting, whats your reasoning?
DaveWadding taking the Indians...nahh |
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x-Florida Atlanta Philadelphia New York Washington NL CENTRAL x-St. Louis y-Houston Pittsburgh Chicago Cincinnati Milwaukee NL WEST x-San Diego San Francisco Los Angeles Arizona Colorado AL EAST x-New York y-Boston Baltimore Toronto Tampa Bay AL CENTRAL x-Minnesota Cleveland Detroit Chicago Kansas City AL WEST x-Anaheim Seattle Oakland Texas All the other predictions, screw 'em. |
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x-Philadelphia Atlanta Florida New York Washington NL CENTRAL x-Chicago St. Louis Houston Cincinatti Milwaukee Pittsburgh NL WEST x-Arizona y-San Francisco San Diego Los Angeles Colorado AL EAST x-Boston y-New York Baltimore Tampa Bay Toronto AL CENTRAL x-Minnesota Kansas City Detroit Chicago Cleavland AL WEST x-Oakland Seattle Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Texas Oakland > New York Minnesota > Boston Arizona > Chicago San Francisco > Philly Oakland > Minnesota Arizona > San Francisco Oakland > Arizona |
Joey you crazy fella!
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One can dream
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Florida third, Arizona first, KC second, and Oakland in the World Series are kind of risky, but who knows maybe you will be the genius come next October. The A's could realistically get there, they once again have a big set of hot prospects, but I don't expect them to perform great until next year.
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They improved the bullpen, the starting rotation will be better with a healthy Halliday and a matured Bush and Towers. Who knows with the offense. Wells and Hudson need to stay healthy. Rios will hopefully be better. Cat should start in left and send Johnson to the bench, which is where he should be. I have no idea what to expect from Hillenbrand, Zaun, Adams and Hinske. |
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x-Florida y-Atlanta Philadelphia New York Washington NL CENTRAL x-Chicago St. Louis Houston Cincinatti Milwaukee Pittsburgh NL WEST x-San Diego San Francisco Arizona Los Angeles Colorado AL EAST x-New York y-Boston Baltimore Tampa Bay Toronto AL CENTRAL x-Detroit Minnesota Cleveland Chicago Kansas City AL WEST x-Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Seattle Texas Oakland Boston > LA Angels New York > Detroit Chicago > Atlanta Florida > San Diego New York > Boston Chicago > Florida New York > Chicago |
Yankees >
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Braves Marlins Mets Phillies Nationals NL Central Cardinals Astros Reds Cubs Pirates Brewers NL West Dodgers Padres Giants Diamondbacks Rockies AL East Red Sox Yankees Orioles Jays Devil Rays AL Central Twins Tigers Indians White Sox Royals AL West Angels of Anaheim Mariners Athletics Rangers Cardinals over Marlins Dodgers over Braves Red Sox over Twins Angels of Anaheim over Yankees Dodgers over Cardinals Angels of Anaheim over Red Sox Angels of Anaheim over Dodgers NL MVP: Miguel Cabrera AL MVP: Vlad Guerrero NL Cy Young: Tim Hudson AL Cy Young: Johan Santana |
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If Roger can do it another year and Pettite comes back to form after injury, they should have one of the best staffs in the league. |
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compare that to: Prior, Zambrano, Wood, Maddux, and whoever the 5 guy will be. |
The fact that you think the Cubs have a chance makes me go "hahahahaha"
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Because no outfield strikes fear into the hearts of competitors like Hollandsworth/Patterson/Burnitz
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If you can't name one of the keys to the Astros playoff run "Brandon Backe" then you shouldn't try and pretend you know what you're talking about. That being said, Dave, I've learned a simple rule, when you pick a team and say they're going to win, it's usually a VERY safe bet they wont. I'm not sure if your a jinx, or just like to pray, maybe you take the long shot so the once out of 100times you're right you look like a genius since no one else picked them. That being said, you just flushed the cubs season down the toilet. Good job! |
Dave is THE goat.
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yeah Dunn sure did have a bad year last year didn't he
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That's fine, you don't have to know or care, but then you can't give an opinion on something you don't care/know about. |
I actually like Supremes having the Cubs in third. Last year was the Cubs year to do it and they choked. They kept all of their stars and added Maddux and Derek Lee, and they got completely blown away by the Cards. I don't see them doing any better this year, and now they don't have the momentum or anything. I don't think that right now there is a distinguished #2 team in the NL Central, it could be the Cubs, Stros, Reds, or even the Brewers.
Speaking of good staffs... Santana-Radke-Silva-Lohse-Mulholland-Mays/Nathan-Rincon-Romero-Balfour-Craine Top staff in the AL last season, all coming back with Joe Mays and prospects, bow down. |
My opinion on the Astros, last season it took a late miracle for them to make the playoffs. Once in the playoffs, anything can happen, so coming within one game of the World Series doesn't mean all that much. If they needed a giant burst of momentum to do it last year, I think that they lost too much in the offseason to be a legit contended this season.
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No Beltran though, and aren't some of their key players getting real old now?
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VEL he only missed about 17 starts. I think you're pushing it with 15
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Their outfield sucks but thats what trades are for |
I want Derek Lee to be good again, he was the man on the Marlins
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.280-100-32 is pretty good
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I guess so, weren't his numbers a lot better in Florida though? Or was Lee just in a slump part of last year, for some reason I was under the impression that he didn't have a good year.
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Just looked up his numbers in Florida, he put up .270-90-31.
One thing that stood out from looking at his numbers was 20 less walks and 65 more at bats |
why are you writing statlines like that? homeruns first. .270-31-90.
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I've always seen BA-RBI-HR myself
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x-Atlanta Florida New York Philadelphia Washington NL CENTRAL x-Chicago y-St. Louis Houston Pittsburgh Cincinnati Milwaukee NL WEST x-San Francisco Los Angeles San Diego Arizona Colorado AL EAST x-New York y-Boston Baltimore Tampa Bay Toronto AL CENTRAL x-Minnesota Cleveland Detroit Chicago Kansas City AL WEST x-Anaheim Seattle Texas Oakland |
if you read every statistics book or watch any game on television, they list as BA-HR-RBI.
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Anybody gone to any Spring Training games? Thinking about taking a road trip down to Tucson this weekend to catch some Mariners games.
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No, sorry, I'm not made of money.
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I haven't watched much spring training, personally I don't really like how they show it on tv, but if I had the chance to go down there and see it I would jump on it.
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x-New York y-Atlanta Florida Philadelphia Washington NL CENTRAL x-St. Louis Chicago Houston Cincinatti Milwaukee Pittsburgh NL WEST x-San Diego San Francisco Los Angeles Arizona Colorado AL EAST x-New York y-Boston Baltimore Tampa Bay Toronto AL CENTRAL x-Minnesota Detroit Cleveland Chicago Kansas City AL WEST x-Anaheim Seattle Oakland Texas</font> |
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That said, I didn'tmake it to any ST games this year. :$ |
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The offensive has been explosive, getting a lot of hits and a lot of runs. Even the bench has been doing some good hitting. The starters have been throwing tremendously, and even Victor Zambrano has been looking decent. The infield has been consistent with the defense, and the outfield has had very few errors. Most importantly, everyone seems to be in great health outside of Mike Cameron. However, just like last year, the biggest concern is the bullpen. Braden Looper is set at closer, but the bridge to get to him will consist of Mike DeJean, Manny Aybar, Roberto Hernandez, Mike Matthews, Dae-Sung Koo, and Felix Heredia. Not only is that 3 lefties, but it's not even the best 'pen they could create with the guys they had in ST, IMO. To say that I'm not worried about the 'pen would be a complete lie, but I don't think they'll be as horrible as everyone thinks they will be. Everyone seems to enjoy ripping the 'pen apart, but I think they'll prove everyone wrong and do a decent enough job. Bottom Line: The Mets can and will get it done. Can't wait for the season to start.</font> |
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nah, j.k. Mets will probably do pretty good
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Better than last year anyway. :lol:
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better than the Blue Jays :lol:
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good one
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NL EAST
x-Florida Atlanta New York Philadelphia Washington NL CENTRAL x-St. Louis y-Chicago Houston Pittsburgh Cincinnati Milwaukee NL WEST x-Los Angeles San Diego San Fran Arizona Colorado AL EAST x Toronto!!!!!! y-New York Boston Baltimore Tampa Bay AL CENTRAL x-Minnesota Cleveland Detroit Chicago Kansas City AL WEST x-Los Angeles Seattle Oakland Texas World Series- Toronto over St.Louis in 5. |
Well if youre using Spring Training stats for your arguments I'm not going to waste my time. I'd bet my house the Mets don't win the East
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How is :lol: very BCWWFish?
You are the one that replys "Lol" to every other topic on these damned boards :rant: |
Look at what he laughed at. That is what I was referring to.
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My picks:
AL WEST Los Angeles Angels Seattle Mariners Texas Rangers Oakland A's AL CENTRAL Chicago White Sox Minnesota Twins Cleveland Indians Detroit Tigers Kansas City Royals AL EAST Boston Red Sox New York Yankees (wild-card) Baltimore Orioles Tampa Bay Devil Rays Toronto Blue Jays NL WEST Los Angeles Dodgers San Francisco Giants Arizona Diamondbacks San Diego Padres Colorado Rockies NL CENTRAL Houston Astros St. Louis Cardinals Cincinnati Reds Milwaukee Brewers Chicago Cubs Pittsburgh Pirates NL EAST Atlanta Braves Florida Marlins (Wild-Card) New York Mets Washington Nationals Philadelphia Phillies AL Wild-Card Round Boston Red Sox over Chicago White Sox 3-1 Anaheim Angels over New York Yankees 3-0 NL Wild-Card Round Atlanta Braves over Houston Astros 3-2 Florida Marlins over Los Angeles Dodgers 3-2 ALCS Anaheim Angels over Boston Red Sox 4-3 NLCS Florida Marlins over Atlanta Braves 4-2 World Series Anaheim Angels over Florida Marlins 4-2 |
Don't really get why so many people are picking the A's last. Their pitching is lightyears ahead of the Rangers and Mariners and they have pretty solid lineup. The Rangers are pretty terrible.
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Oakland could finish fourth in that division and be only 4-5 games from first.
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I wouldn't really say the Rangers are terrible. They do have the best infield in baseball.
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Oh David. Young, naive David.
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Personally, I think that the Mariners will end up last in the AL West. Sure, they added two huge bats to Ichiro and Bret Boone, but when your ace is Joel Piniero, no bat can save you.
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I also can see the Red Sox missing the playoffs
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as a yankee fan, i couldn't have been much more pleased with the way things went down last night.
randy for cy young, godzilla for mvp, jeter for batting title, a-rod for homerun title. |
WOOOOO GO BLUE JAYS
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x-Atlanta y-Florida New York Washington Philadelphia NL CENTRAL x-St. Louis Chicago Cincinnati Houston Pittsburgh Milwaukee NL WEST x-San Diego San Francisco Los Angeles Arizona Colorado AL EAST x-New York y-Boston Baltimore Toronto Tampa Bay AL CENTRAL x-Minnesota Detroit Cleveland Kansas City Chicago AL WEST x-Seattle Anaheim/Los Angeles Oakland Texas Cardinals over Braves Padres over Marlins Yankees over Twins Mariners over Red Sox Cardinals over Padres Mariners over Yankees Cardinals over Mariners |
Joel Piniero, Jamie Moyer, Gil Meche, Bobby Madritsch, and Aaron Sele are why you should probably stab yourself.
The Cubs being on both ESPN2 and WGN while the Twins are supposed to be on ESPN2 is why I should stab myself. |
How ya like Sexton BCWWF?
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Brett Boone should be homering, then it wouldn't be SOO bad. Nobody is hitting, but as of this writing...Luis Rivas is batting 1.000 on the season :love: Also, Mauer is .500 with a SB, he is the only one amazing. Morneau is scaring me a bit though.
It is typical Radke to suck in the first inning and then tear it up, so no fear. BTW, there is no reason why the Football thread should be ahead of this one at any time today, even if nothing is going on we have to keep this one at the top. |
Chros, you gonna make 10K tonight?
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Joel Piniero is a damn fine pitcher, btw. |
A's :(
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Well, Dodgers started out with a 4-2 loss to the giants, that sucks, but i still think they will win the nl west again
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mark teixeira might hit 40 homeruns this year.
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Whoopsies i meant Michael Young
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Even if Young has a moderate year hitting, Soriano, Texiera, and Blalock by themselves are better than most infields
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They gained J.D Drew, Derek Lowe, Jose Valentin who can still play, and when Penny and Gagne come back its gonna be even better. D'backs suck
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Dodgers are pretty underrated if you ask me. I think they could take the NL West, I don't think the D-Backs have much of a shot at finishing higher then fourth
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A's are looking good. Don't think they'll hold up though. I think next year, they will be awesome though
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I wish there was something more in baseball to give the other teams something to play for. I mean for like the Devil Rays, why should they even try?
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Dodgers 8-2 baby
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Because they make millions of dollars. |
amazin mets! 6-0 run!
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Yankees are playing smart right now. They realize that winning the Wildcard is the way to go now and days. So they are continuing to lose so they won't win the East.
Good Plan :y: |
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