As regular readers of this column know, the author of this space is not lacking for self confidence. However, I know the limitations of my considerable powers of prognostication. This year’s SEC West is a crapshoot at best. This column has the potential to make me look very, very bad. That said, I’ll take that [...]
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Continuing my Major League Baseball season preview by division, here are the AL West teams listed in order of predicted finish. Seattle Mariners. Despite being the Arizona Diamondbacks of the American League in 2007 (having given up more runs than...
National League West, which looked like this at the end of last season:
* Arizona | 90 | 72 |
* Colorado | 90 | 73 |
* San Diego | 89 | 74 |
* LA Dodgers | 82 | 80 |
* San Francisco | 71 | 91 |
Tight, tight, tight TIGHT race. We all remember the insane [...]
Continuing my Major League Baseball season preview by division, here are the NL West teams listed in order of predicted finish. Arizona Diamondbacks. As usual, the NL West looks to be a very tight race, with any of four teams...
Los Angeles Dodgers (91-71): The team has had quite a few new additions, including longtime San Francisco pitcher Jason Schmidt, veterans Luis Gonzalez, Mike Leiberthal, Randy Wolf and the speedy Juan Pierre. However, during the winter, the team lost several players including Jose Cruz Jr., J.D. Drew, Eric Gagne, Toby Hall, Kenny Lofton, Julio Lugo, Jayson Werth and the ageless Greg Maddux.In light of losing Greg Maddux, the Dodgers have once again put the focus on the upgrading their pitching, as they acquired Jason Schmidt from the rival Giants. With workhouse Derek Lowe, imposing Brad Penny, Randy Wolf, who’ll on be on the comeback trail, and as well, possibly youngster Chad Bilingsley, the Dodgers have a an impressive starting corps. The bullpen has a mix of young and veteran arms, and will look to help the starting pitching out of jams and close out games this upcoming season with Takashi Saito and fireballer, Jonathan Broxton. The weakness with the Dodgers is the offense
