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? asked in SportsBaseball · 8 years ago

How about some final season MLB projections? (AL East)?

Well folks, it's July. Time for Baseball to kickoff it's second half. In the first half we saw many suprises happen, Chris Davis turned out to be a MVP candidate, Young pitchers rose, Blue Jays struggled, Yankees have remained in the race, and well... that's just some of it. Now, I will give my projections to witch MLB teams I believe will make the playoffs, miss the playoffs, and where they will end up in the playoffs.

AL East:

1st Place: Baltimore Orioles 96-66. Orioles have won 53 games at the all-star break this year and are 10 games over .500, Last year, they were 2 games over .500 at the break, If they have a similar 2nd half then last year, expect well over 90 wins and a AL East Championship

2nd place: Boston Red Sox 91-71 (WC) I have to admit it, Boston has been the best team in the AL the first half of the season. Pitchers have stepped and proven that Boston's hot April start could continue until July, and it has. I expect Boston to battle with O's and Rays in a 3 way race for the division championship, but with Boston falling up 5 games short.

3rd place: Tampa Bay Rays 85-77 Tampa Bay has to be the best 3rd place team ever. If they were in the NL, they would fit well in any division, they have the Pitching to dominate games. But, they're in a AL East, which has 4 great offenses, that's why I put Tampa 3rd. Yes, Tampa has great pitching, but that's not what you need in the AL. Longoria has carried Tampa's offense all season, and that will continue in the 2nd half of the season. Tampa will give Boston and Baltimore a fight for 1st, but will come up short in September.

4th place: New York Yankees 81-81 New York has had a great season in there books, This club was expected to struggle with injuries but pitching and Robinson Cano has kept them in the race. But i'm sorry, the Yankees will not contend in this division in the 2nd half. Injuries will continue to be a factor, The Yankees rotation is not as good as the Rays rotation is, but they still have the 2nd best rotation in the East, but like I said before, Pitching doesn't mean anything in this division. Yankees will probably not have Jeter back for a little bit, Cano will continue to lead a struggling Offense. And what makes stuff better? A-Rod is returning, great. But Yankees will realize when they miss the playoffs that not every year is there year, and this year just isn't there's.

5th place Toronto Jays 70-92 Poor Jays, after a offseason they acquired Josh Johnson, Jose Reyes, R.A Dickey, Melky Cabrera, and others. They haven't been able to live up to the hype. They have rode the 5th spot in the east the whole first half and will continue to ride last place again. Jays wanted to gain star power for one reason: Orioles and Red Sox. Jays knew going into 2013 that all 4 teams in the AL would be something. Yankees are always in the race. Rays are getting better every year. Red Sox were rebuilding quickly and Orioles are back in the race, so Jays wanted to improve, they did what they could, but it didn't work it. I don't expect Toronto's pitching to play spoiler to AL teams in the 2nd half, and I expect them to be one of the worst teams in AL in the 2nd half of the season.

So there's my predictions, So my questions, Do you agree with me? Do you disagree with me? Why do you disagree? Let me know!

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago
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    First Place Detroit, and in that other older league that goes back to the 1800's, I pick St. Louis.

    Yes a repeat of the 1968 World Series when Denny McClain won 30 games, and it was OK for hundreds of soldiers to lose their lives in Viet Nam EVERY WEAK just so that rich Americans who were dictating Nixon etc what to do could get even richer. Balt aint got two starting pitchers like # 35 and # 37. They are only playing with Cleveland or KC, now if they were in the AL East, they'd be playing way over .600. Just like last year, it will look like they backed into the Play-offs. They just don't want to offend Cleveland, their neighbors east of Lake Erie.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    8 years ago

    1 Boston

    2 Baltimore

    3 Tampa

    4 Toronto

    5 NY

    I think Baltimore will win the wild card

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