Today I will make my beginning of the year predictions for American League. Feel free to post your own predictions.
America League:
East Winner: Tampa Bay Rays Central Winner: Cleavland Indians
West Winner: L.A. Angles Wild Card Winner: Boston Red Sox
AL MVP: Grady Sizemore (Clevland Indians, CF)
AL Rookie of the Year: David Price (Tampa Bay Rays, SP)
AL CY Young: Josh Beckett (Boston Red Sox, SP)
AL HR Leader: Josh Hamilton (Texas Rangers, CF)
AL AVG Leader: Coco Crisp (Kansas City Royals, CF)
AL RBI Leader: Mark Teixeira (New York Yankees, 1B)
AL Wins Leader: Chein-Ming Wang (New York Yankees, SP)
AL ERA Leader: Josh Beckett (Boston Red Sox, SP)
AL Strike Out Leader: Felix Hernandez (Seattle Mariners, SP)
AL Comeback Player of the Year: Andruw Jones (Texas Ranger, OF)
Watch out for: Hideki Matusi (New York Yankees, DH/OF), Brad Penny (Boston Red Sox, P), Ken Griffey Jr. (Seattle Mariners, DH)
Three Players to Watch:
Carlos Gomez (Minnesota Twins, CF)
Nick Markakis (Baltimore Orioles, RF)
Brett Gardner (New York Yankees, CF)
Outside Chance:
The Kansas City Royals have all the makings of a playoff contender. A lot of people don't like the moves that they did this winter, I am not one of them. I think Coco Crisp and Kyle Farnsworth will flourish in a small market like they did once before. Mike Jacobs adds power to the middle of a lineup that really needed it. The key to this teams success is going to be starters Zach Greinke and Kyle Davies if they can live up to there potential and put together strong season look for this team come October.
There is also a chance that Kevin Youkilis of the Boston Red Sox continues to come into his own and put up tremendous numbers. Look for him to be in the running for the AL home run lead and possibly the AL MVP chase.
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You go David Price over Matt Wieters?? Even though both will start the year in AAA?
ReplyDeleteMarkakis is already a great player, and he's only 25. If you look at the steady improvement in his offensive stats over the last few years, there's very little doubt that he's going to be a superstar, and hopefully will carry my fantasy team. Plus, he's an above-average defender in right field. He's the player JD Drew wishes he could be.
ReplyDeleteLucky JD Drew plays for a team that will give him some RBIs every once in a great while. I'm going to be an idiot and pretend like that has any effect on which is the greater player (Markakis in all probability if only for lack of injuries) but it will have a certain impact from a fantasy aspect.
ReplyDeleteOh and Josh, feel free to weigh in here. Also Greg, I'm surprised you stayed away from Matt Wieters talk.
ReplyDeleteFirst, valid point Keegan, although I guess the weight given to RBI's in a given league would answer your question. The SV it isn't, but the RBI is a flawed stat in that in penalizes great players who just happen to play on crappy teams. Sort of like how Wang (assuming the Yankees offense holds up) could very well end up with 20 wins when on another team he would amass somewhere more in the 16-17 range.
ReplyDeleteAs for Matt Wieters, he's my boy, and I can't wait for him to get called up so he can dominate for my fantasy team. Dude raked last year between high A and AA, putting together this line: .355/.454/.600/1.054
Personally I'm not sold on Matt Wieters yet. He was third on my ROY ballet to start the season. I have Price in 1st. Elvis Andrews (Texas Rangers, SS) 2nd. Matt Wieters (Baltimore Orioles, C) 3rd.
ReplyDeletewow um haha idk about that MVP im thinking PAPI ;)
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