boba
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It's Cesar Chavez day tomorrow (State holiday!) so baseball season must be upon us. That said, it's fun to make wild guesses about your favorite (or perhaps despised) team. My contribution is the number of wins, yes/no playoffs, the team's batting average and HR leaders, pitcher with most wins.
A Yankee fan since Joe Pepitone I'm familiar with these droughts but this year will be different? eh, probably not, *shrug*
Nonetheless, my WAG's:
Wins: 92
Playoffs: ... no.
Hitter: Gardner, .296
HR: Sanchez, 41
Wins: Tanaka, 18
The number of wins is generous, but I see them taking a bunch from the likes of Tampa and AL West. Problem is other teams will have the same advantages and the magic number will be 94. And if Brett Gardner leads your team in batting average, you are in trouble. Sanchez and Bird are going to be nice young players but Ellsbury the Albatross is going to weigh them down wherever he is in the line-up, and if he's in the line-up, he's in center, and that is less than ideal too.
On pitching, I like Tanaka-san alot, but he's not able to pitch enough to get to 20, so... well you know what that means. Can CC deliver a 12-10 season? Probably, and that's why I can't see playoffs in the future.
A Yankee fan since Joe Pepitone I'm familiar with these droughts but this year will be different? eh, probably not, *shrug*
Nonetheless, my WAG's:
Wins: 92
Playoffs: ... no.
Hitter: Gardner, .296
HR: Sanchez, 41
Wins: Tanaka, 18
The number of wins is generous, but I see them taking a bunch from the likes of Tampa and AL West. Problem is other teams will have the same advantages and the magic number will be 94. And if Brett Gardner leads your team in batting average, you are in trouble. Sanchez and Bird are going to be nice young players but Ellsbury the Albatross is going to weigh them down wherever he is in the line-up, and if he's in the line-up, he's in center, and that is less than ideal too.
On pitching, I like Tanaka-san alot, but he's not able to pitch enough to get to 20, so... well you know what that means. Can CC deliver a 12-10 season? Probably, and that's why I can't see playoffs in the future.