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.
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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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Direction of the Red Sox
I wonder about my favorite team, wonder where they are going. On one hand, they told me they wanted to get younger, save some money by developing their own players. Since Theo Epstein took over in 2002, he wanted to replenish the minor league system through the draft, have a constant influx of players to the major league roster. It might appear as though they have, I mean they are ranked in the Baseball America Prospect Handbook as the 9th best minor league system in the major leagues. But from their recent moves, I know better.
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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:
Coming into the 2007 season the Boston Red Sox are going to be trying to forget about last year and focus more on a new ending that looks very much like 2004. This off-season they prove to be a team on a mission to build towards making a run in the playoffs. With the acquisitions of numerous pitching talents they seem to be listening to the age-old phrase, “Pitching wins Championships”.
By Rob LaBrie
As if Manny Ramirez wasn’t unpredictable enough, now he’s so unpredictable, we can’t even predict his unpredictability. What?
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Shut Up
By Billy Fellin
Just a few days ago, spring training began in baseball when first the pitchers and catchers then the rest of the players showed up in camp and started to work out for the 2007 season. Great, I’m already excited about the weather getting warmer (gotta love nice spring days on a college campus-girl’s shorts get shorter ever year) as well as baseball getting going. But then we get drama worthy of a high school cafeteria out of New York where A-Rod has said his friendship with Derek Jeter has “cooled”. Honestly, guys, just can it.