Break out the peanuts and Cracker Jacks, it’s time for the 2007 Major League Baseball season to begin. With that in mind, there are some of the top burning questions, along with those wild and wacky picks of the season.
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MLB 2007: Post Season Predictions
Yankees vs. Twins. Angels vs. Red Sox. Mets vs. Cubs. Padres vs. Phillies. The 2007 MLB playoffs look familiar, yet there’s a couple of differences as well.
After giving you my rankings for the hitters, it’s now time for the pitchers. While closers are generally easy to predict, the starters are a whole different animal. After about the top eight or so, there is a group of about 15-20 starters that can be grouped in many different ways. The trick is to find candidates for a breakout year, such as Brandon Webb or Aaron Harang last season.
I already told you what I saw in the crystal ball for the American League in 2007. Now it’s time to talk about what may transpire on the senior circuit. Specifically, will pigs fly in the year of the boar?
Tea leaves. The I Ching. Extispicy. PECOTA. You name it, I’ve looked at it in my utterly insane efforts to predict the outcome of the 2007 Major League Baseball season, beginning even before pitchers and catchers reported to camp. Why on earth am I doing this? The answer, in a nutshell, is simply because I can. Do I have any hope that my predictions will turn out to be true? Not really. Still, I might be on to something here. Or, at the very least, it gives us a place to start talking about the upcoming season.
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MLB Power Rankings Preview for 2007
Spring is here and that means one thing for certain. It’s raining cats and dogs in Seattle. But, with only slightly less certainty it also means that the Cactus and Grapefruit leagues are in full swing and baseball season is rapidly approaching.
Most of us have spent the entire weekend scouring over our NCAA tournament brackets, looking for that underdog who will catapult us to the top of our office pool, but with all the attention paid to college basketball, it’s easy to forget that as soon as the madness is over, it will be time for baseball. So, now seems like the perfect time to talk preseason Power Rankings, because by the end of this week my vocabulary will be reduced to phrases like bracket buster and buzzer beater; I will devote all the room in my head to memorizing the seedings of all 64 teams and who they’ll play next if they win, and the only adjective that will hold any meaning will be, “It’s awesome, baby!”
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Fantasy Baseball Preview: The Hitters
With many fantasy baseball drafts just around the corner, it’s time to start breaking down each position. Here’s part one of my two-part preview, in which I give you my top hitters at each position:
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Bringing Home The Big One
by Trevor Freeman
It is 10:05 P.M. and I’m drunk. I’m real drunk. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t banking on grammar and spell check to step it up a notch right now. I got home at 5:30 and all I’ve been doing is rifling Yuengling. The person who said drinking never cured your problems has never tasted the beautiful amber ale that only Pottsville, Pennsylvania can produce.
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Breaking Down The American League
by Trevor Freeman
For the first time in four months, I am ready to talk about baseball again. The Oakland A’s and I had to take a little break from each other as I was beginning to question the fairness of life after the Magglio Ordonez walk-off. Luckily I was able to immerse myself in a 49er renaissance and preparation for March Madness. If you discount the Ken Macha baseball card hanging off the dartboard in my office and the Magglio Ordonez baseball card which was used for a brief three-day stretch as a urinal bullseye then for the most part I have responded to the loss in a mature fashion.
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I’m Not So Sure Sammy
Recently signed to the Texas Rangers, Sammy Sosa is looking to make a return to Major League Baseball. In my opinion this signing is one that is shocking and honestly doesn’t make much sense.