Official 2014 Predictions

[Orange Juiced]

AL East

1. Tampa Bay

2. Boston

3. New York

4. Baltimore

5. Toronto

 

AL Central

1. Detroit

2. Kansas City

3. Cleveland

4. Chicago

5. Minnesota

 

AL West

1. Oakland

2. Los Angeles

3. Texas

4. Seattle

5. Houston

 

Wild Cards: Boston, Los Angeles

 

NL East

1. Washington

2. Atlanta

3. Philadelphia

4. New York

5. Miami

 

NL Central

1. St. Louis

2. Pittsburgh

3. Cincinnati

4. Milwaukee

5. Chicago

 

NL West

1. Los Angeles

2. San Francisco

3. Arizona

4. San Diego

5. Colorado

 

Wild Cards: San Francisco, Atlanta

 

AL Playoffs:

WC: Boston over Los Angeles

Divisional: Boston over Detroit, Tampa Bay over Oakland

ALCS: Tampa Bay over Boston

 

NL Playoffs:

WC: San Francisco over Atlanta

Divisional: Washington over San Francisco, St. Louis over Los Angeles

NLCS: St. Louis over Washington

 

World Series: St. Louis over Tampa Bay

 

Awards:

AL MVP: Mike Trout

AL Cy Young Award: Justin Verlander

NL MVP: Bryce Harper

NL Cy Young Award: Stephen Strasburg

[SoxSport]

Strasburg isn't pitching like a Cy candidate today. Neither is Verlander. Harper is a guy who runs into injuries. Too intense. Almost got hurt today.

 

Why does everybody always pick the Rays? They can't hit for crap. The Red Sox are still the defending champs, and we don't really know if they are better or worse. A chance they are better.

 

The most overrated team in baseball might be the Dodgers. Poor game last night. Mattingly blew it taking out his starter in a shutout after only 88 pitches. The folly of pitch counts. They can hurt if used incorrectly.

 

I go back to the good organizations--Cards, Pirates, Giants in NL; KC, Red Sox, Rays, As in AL.

[Thunder]

Don't we already have a thread?

[Jacoby_Ellsbury]

AL playoffs: New York, Detroit, Texas, Boston (wildcard), Kansas City (wildcard)

NL playoffs: Washington, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, St. Louis (wildcard), Los Angeles (wildcard)

 

ALCS: Detroit over New York

NLCS: Pittsburgh over Washington

 

World Series: Detroit over Pittsburgh

[BornToRun]

I predict that AJ Pierzynski's at bats are going to cause me to murder another human being by mid-April.

[jacksonianmarch]

Really? His name is Schoop?

[vjcsmoke]

Official according to who? And what has Tampa Bay done to prove they should be frontrunners to win the division?

 

I just want to see two things - Red Sox win the division and get into the playoffs. Everything after that is gravy...

Yankees miss the playoffs, and watch their fanbase implode! ;-)

[RedSoxNC84]

I predict that I'm going to miss Jenny Dell

[sk7326]

Official according to who? And what has Tampa Bay done to prove they should be frontrunners to win the division?

 

I just want to see two things - Red Sox win the division and get into the playoffs. Everything after that is gravy...

Yankees miss the playoffs, and watch their fanbase implode! ;-)

 

Rays did not have to do a whole lot. If Archer just develops the way his first year portended, if their defense is still strong. The separation between us and them was not huge to begin with. I don't call them frontrunners, but co-favorites with us? No doubt.

[Palodios]

If they lose Matt Moore to TJS, that could be disastrous for them. But we know they are far too lucky for those kinds of issues.

[seabeachfred]

If they lose Matt Moore to TJS, that could be disastrous for them. But we know they are far too lucky for those kinds of issues.

 

We've all gotten hit with these injuries so early in the season---us, the Rays, the Yankees and other teams not in our division. I know injuries are a part of the game but this is getting out of hand. I can't recall a bigger epidemic of maladies so early in the season......and we need Victorino and Middlebrooks as soon as can be managed.

[Behindenemylines]

Through the first few weeks of the season all of the AL East teams are all bunched up. It will come down to pitching and who can stay the healthiest.