I didn't see one and I did a search for 5 key words and nothing came up..

Here we go:

AL East: Yankees
AL Central: Indians
AL West: Oakland
Wild Card: Red Sox (1-2 games over the ChiSox)

ALCS: Yankees vs Oakland --> Oakland wins

Cy Young: Rich Harden
MVP: ARod
ROY: Jon Papelbon (i know he meets the IP req. but I'm not sure about the service time?) Ummmm, I'll get back to ya on this one.

NL East: Metropolitans
NL Central: Cards
NL West: Dodgers
Wild Card: Brewers (you heard it here 3rd)

NLCS: Mets-Cards --> Cards win

Cy Young: Dontrelle Willis
MVP: Pujols (David Wright 2nd)
ROY: Jeremy Hermida

World Series: Cards in 6 (great series though)

[Edited on April 10, 2006 at 11:12 AM. Reason : damn not eligible.. too much service time.]

4/10/2006 11:10:51 AM

Oakland isnt going anywhere with their offense.

The Red Sox look like the best team in the league so far, because schilling is throwing well again, and Beckett has been nasty

The Dodgers will not win their division.

The AL Wild card is coming out of the central, dont let the Sox slow start fool you..they are nasty, and Vasquez is pitching well again. The Indians will be tough, and probably would have won the series last year if they made it to the playoffs.

As much as I love the Yankees, I dont know if they will be able to take the Red Sox this year, but only time will tell.

My world series pick: Indians over Astros

4/10/2006 12:36:55 PM

NL East:Metropolitans Braves

4/10/2006 12:42:25 PM

I think the Cubs have a good shot at the wildcard if they can get some decent starts out of Marshall. The Brewers will be this year's Baltimore Orioles.

4/10/2006 12:44:35 PM

I don't understand why so many people think the Red Sox are going to be so great this year.

1) Their rotation is definitely bolstered by Beckett, and a healthy Schilling, but losing Arroyo hurts, and Wakefield is going to have some real troubles without Mirabelli catching his knuckler.

2) Their lineup has definitely taken a hit.
1B: Youkilis - The "Greek God of Walks" doesn't play the kind of baseball the Red Sox need. He will walk and get on base, but he has very little pop. He's a great CHEAP option at 1st base, but will provide nowhere near the average 1B power.
2B: Loretta - This guy WAS good, now he's really just average, but with very little speed for a second baseman.
SS: Alex Gonzalez - definitely a huge downgrade from their past (Nomar, Cabrera, Renteria) 3B: Lowell - we all know his story, used to be great, terrible last year, MAYBE he can turn it around for an average year this time around.
LF: Manny - same as before
CF: Crisp - younger and faster than Damon, not as high an average, pretty much a wash, maybe a BIT better, but we don't have any idea if he's clutch, which Damon is, and thats not something you can predict (look at Arod)
RF: Nixon / Pena - Nixon is obviously the same, Pena has pop but a terrible average

4/10/2006 2:50:19 PM

I'm just pumped that my indians are so nasty

4/10/2006 3:31:38 PM

^same here

My world series pick: Indians over Cardinals

4/10/2006 3:34:58 PM

Quote :

"NL East:MetropolitansBraves"

4/10/2006 4:12:10 PM

^^ gotta get through the AL Central first


and we all know that ain't gonna happen

4/10/2006 4:41:53 PM

AL East: New York, Boston, Toronto, Tampa Bay, Baltimore
AL Central: Chicago, Cleveland, Minnesota, Detroit, Kansas City
AL West: Anaheim, Oakland, Texas, Seattle
Wildcard: Cleveland


NL East: Atlanta, New York, Philly, Washington, Florida
NL Central: St Louis, Milwaukee, Houston, Chicago, Reds, Pittsburgh
NL West: San Diego, San Fransico, Los Angeles, Rockies, Arizona
Wildcard: New York

ALDS: Chicago over Anaheim, Cleveland over New York
ALCS: Cleveland over Chicago

NLDS: St. Louis over New York, Atlanta over San Diego
NLCS: St. Louis over Atlanta

WS: St. Louis over Cleveland

MVP: Ortiz, Pujols
Cy Young: Santana, Carpenter
ROY: Fielder or Marte, Hermeda (not sure if he's eligible)

[Edited on April 10, 2006 at 5:12 PM. Reason : ]

4/10/2006 5:12:47 PM

quick, everyone pick your favorite team to win the world series!!!!!!!

4/10/2006 9:36:54 PM

quick, everyone pick your favorite team to lose in the playoffs!!!!!!!

like i did!!!!!!!!

4/10/2006 9:59:12 PM

Worst fan ever.

Honestly though, you can't realistically make predictions this early in the year. Part of baseball is the "wear" and how a team responds to it.

4/10/2006 10:41:44 PM

dude

that's what predictions are

if we made predictions at the end of the season, they wouldn't be predictions

4/10/2006 10:53:08 PM

I'm just saying, it hasn't even been 10 games yet. There's a reason SI always gets these things wrongs.

4/10/2006 11:20:42 PM

no one thinks their predictions are going to be 100% correct

[Edited on April 10, 2006 at 11:22 PM. Reason : ]

4/10/2006 11:22:44 PM

AL East: Boston
AL Central: Cleveland
AL West: Seattle
Wild Card: NY Yankees
NL East: NY Mets
NL Central: Stl.
NL West: Arizona
Wild Card: Atlanta


World Series: Mets over Boston

4/11/2006 12:00:54 AM

^^ yes, ernie, but the odds are that 95-99% of the predictions in this thread will be wrong. just saying.

4/11/2006 12:31:58 AM

95%? Give me a break.


You dont think i can pick 2 of the 6 division winners? jesus i can probably pick 4 with a chance at 5 or 6.

4/11/2006 1:21:16 AM

mark it then homeboy. I will, right here and now, promise you that your prediction will be wrong. We got some baseball nubs here.

4/11/2006 1:23:14 AM

Um okay... here's my six division winners.

Unlikely to get all 6.
Chance to get 5/6
50/50 to pick 4/6
Very confident I can get 3 right.
2 is guaranteed.


AL East - Yankees (3 games back right now, so i dont wanna hear that i did this after the season started)

AL Central - Indians (fast start meaningless, woulda been my pick preseason love the balance)

AL West - Athletics (biased because I'm the biggest A's fan in the world)

NL East - Mets (hate the Braves and they are due)

NL Cental - Cards (I've got $720 riding on them to win the div, so this is the one I really care about)

NL West - Dodgers (This one is a bit of a crapshoot b/c both LA and SF are injury prone)

[Edited on April 11, 2006 at 2:01 AM. Reason : a]

4/11/2006 2:00:01 AM