“Everybody else is doing it, so why can’t we?”
Time for STN to make our predictions for the season, but from what I’ve seen so far, everybody seems to be putting stock in the Red Sox. I think that’s for a second post. For now, our thoughts on the season:
Divisional predictions
Stacey Gotsulias
AL East: Red Sox
AL Central: Twins
AL West: Â Rangers
AL Wild Card: Yankees
NL East: Phillies
NL Central: Cardinals
NL West: Giants
NL Wildcard: Brewers
Ashley Teatum
AL East: Yankees
AL Central: Twins
AL West: Â Rangers
AL Wild Card: Red Sox
NL East: Phillies
NL Central: Cardinals
NL West: Rockies
NL Wildcard: Braves
The Yankees’ Season
Stacey Gotsulias
2011 record: 92-70
Yankees lose the ALCS
Ashley Teatum
2011 record: 96-66
I’m feeling Yankees/Phillies (like old times, now) or Yankees/Rockies for a World Series. There will be a Yankees/Red Sox ALCS.
Batting
Stacey Gotsulias
A Rod: 43 HRs
Teixeira: 37 HRs
Swish: 28 HRs
Posada: 18 HRs and only four baserunning blunders
Granderson: 22 HRs
Gardner: 5 HRs (1 inside the park)
Cano: MVP runner-up
Jeter gets hit No. 3000 on June 17 against the Cubs in Chicago.
Martin says “eh” a lot in postgame interviews.
Ashley Teatum
A-Rod: 40 home runs
Gardy: 50 stolen bases
Jeter’s 3,000th comes at home against Milwaukee, June 28.
Pitching
Stacey Gotsulias
CC: 19 wins
Burnett: 15 wins
Hughes: 16 wins
Nova: 14 wins
Garcia: 10 wins
Mo: 33 saves
Joba cuts his hair.
Soriano refuses to pitch in a critical game in September because he doesn’t want to face an AL East rival.
Colon explodes by May 18.
Robertson gets out of a bases-loaded-and-no-outs situation four different times.
Ashley Teatum
CC: 24 wins
Burnett: 12 wins
Hughes: 16 wins
Nova: 14 wins
Garcia: 10 wins
Mo: 35 saves
Nova’s fastball tops 97 mph.
Colon turns to Sabathia’s No Cap’n Crunch diet until he realizes he just loves it too damn much.
Broadcasting
Stacey Gotsulias
Michael Kay finally tries soup.
Singleton says “look out” around 43 times.
Ashley Teatum
John Sterling drops the first “It is high! It is far! It is…caught.” of the season in the fifth inning Thursday.
Kim Jones refuses to showcase ballpark food this season.
So many of these were so wrong on my part BUT it’s funny to look back.
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