Wednesday, February 17, 2010

20 Bold Predictions for 2010

It's February 18th, time to report. The Baseball Oxygen season has officially begun. I'll open with 20 bold predictions you can expect for the upcoming season.

-Wade Davis is the Ray’s most effective starter, winning 16 games and striking out 170.

-The Texas Rangers break the MLB record for runs scored in a season, 1,067, by the 1931 New York Yankees. The 2010 Rangers score 1,074 times.

-Cliff Lee wins his second AL Cy Young in 3 years.

-Tony LaRussa uses hitting coach Mark McGwire as a pinch-hitter in September and Big Mac goes yard.

-Ryan Braun collects over 200 hits, bangs out 40 HR, bats .325, and steals 20 bases. He wins the NL MVP, beating out Hanley Ramirez. Albert Pujols finishes out of the top 5 in MVP voting for only the 2nd time in 10 years.

-Despite Cito Gaston’s best and bravest efforts, the 2010 Blue Jays lose 100 games and finish last in the American League.

-Jacoby Ellsbury leads the Red Sox in runs, stolen bases, hits, and batting average.

-Five years removed from baseball, Benito Santiago returns to the Padres and inexplicably wins his 2nd Rookie of the Year award.

-The Angels finish 3rd in the A.L. West. Someone else finishes first.

-Bronson Arroyo releases his 2nd (?) studio album, Bringin’ the Heat, which consists of 9 acoustic Nickelback covers and one original, titled, You Taught Me I Loved You.

-Shin-Soo Choo has another 20/20 season while leading the AL in strikeouts with 184.

-Manny Ramirez finishes the season 10th on the all-time HR list. He does so by hitting more than 27 HR and at least 18 HR more than however many Jim Thome manages to hit.

-Jeremy Bonderman wins 13 games for the Tigers, and is slated for Game 1 of the Divisional Series. Working with a flashlight and a crayon, Jim Leyland scrawls the playoff roster on the back of a Monopoly board while he defecates in a batting helmet in his attic and ponders how the Tigers went from World Series challengers to missing the playoffs for the fourth season in a row.

-Travis Hafner wins MLB Comeback Player of the Year Award, by hitting 31 HR, with 98 RBI, and batting .299.

-Miguel Cabrera hits 40 HR and wins his first MVP award.

-Curtis Granderson bats .235 for the Yankees. He also misses 18 games after colliding with Jeter, A-Rod, Nick Johnson, Gary Darling, and Scott Bakula while chasing down a shallow pop fly.

-Free Agent Antonio Alfonseca reveals a 7th “mystery” finger while trying out for the Dodgers. He remains unsigned.

-Roy Halladay wins 23 games for the Phillies and records 254 strike outs on his way to winning his first NL Cy Young.

-Pedro Martinez wins 5 more games than Smoltz does in 2010. Pedro Martinez goes 7-2.

-Thanks to a .874 BABIP, Paul Konerko leads the American League with a .511 average.

-The Red Sox go 99-63 during the 2010 regular season. They defeat the Yankees in the ALCS and beat the Phillies in 6 games to become World Series Champions for the 3rd time this century.

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