Spring Training games have gotten underway which marks the return of the best sport in history. Time for the annual MLB thread.
- How will the Miami Marlins perform in Toronto this year?
- Will the Nationals/Orioles regress?
- How will the Yankees perform? Here's hoping ARod is fired for using PED's still…..
- Will the Red Sox bounce back?
- Will the Giants finally get off cloud 9 and return to being a middle of a pack team now that the PED user is gone?
1. Toronto has a better supporting staff and front office. People love playing there. It will transfer over to the field, and their pitching is solid.
2. Nationals won't regress because they weren't a story book team like Oakland and Baltimore. Washington will win the East. Baltimore will be determined down the stretch after the AS break.
3 Yankees are old. I hope Arod is fired also.
4. Red Sox are improved but missing a few pieces.
5. Melky served a 50 game suspension and they still won it all. He made no difference. Posey is the best catcher in the game and they've got the best manager in the game. Period. People love playing for him, and that matters.
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Mets fan here.
The starting pitching looks VERY promising - a rotation of Santana, Neise Gee, Marcum and Harvey looks good on paper.
The infield is unchanged but the depth chart for the outfield is decidedly bare.
The catchers are completely different from last year but they now have the best young catcher in the majors (d'Arnaud, traded from Toronto).
Bullpen is a whole other story.
I think they'll do better than last year but I don't have my hopes high for a championship run this year but I like what Sandy Alderson has done to recover from what Omar Minaya did.
Oh yeah, and the best broadcast trio in baseball! Gary Keith and Ron return for another season in the booth with play by play and analysis.
I don't think Santana is coming back man. I'm a Braves fan but I'd like to see the Mets field a good team, but it ain't happening. It'll be a success to finish above the Marlins in the East.
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I predict another year in the gutter for the Rockies.
At least you're honest, but I think they got a good shot in that division.
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I'm a DIEHARD Braves fan, but Washington's pitching is insane. They could win 100 games this year.