2014 MLB: Predictions

smackbunnybaby

So, pop your predictions in here!

Here is an example by Jack Presley from 2013

NLE - Nats
NLC - Reds
NLW - Giants
ALE - Rays
ALC - Tigers
ALW - Angels
NL WCs -Braves, Cardinals.
AL WCs - Blue Jays, Rangers

AL MVP - Trout
NL MVP - Harper
AL Cy - Darvish
NL Cy - Strasburg
AL Rookie - Myers
NL Rookie - No idea!

World Series - Tigers beating the Nats in 6.

and 8-10 went even further with his divisional positions:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=83878501&postcount=2

Morrison J

NL East - Nationals
AL East - Red Sox (Could pick any of four teams though, so tough)
NL Central - Cardinals
AL Central - Tigers
NL West - Dodgers
AL West - Rangers
NL Wild Cards - Reds, Giants
AL Wild Cards - Yankees, Angels

World Series Champions - Detroit Tigers beating the Dodgers in 6 games.

AL MVP - Mike Trout
NL MVP - Bryce Harper
AL Cy Young - Yu Darvish
NL Cy Young - Jose Fernandez
AL Rookie Of The Year - Masahiro Tanaka
NL Rookie Of The Year - Kolten Wong


Gonna finish with a few bold (maybe mental) predictions:
The Brewers will finish above the Pirates in their division.
The Marlins will not finish bottom of the NL East.
Jedd Gyorko will be an All Star
Prince Fielder will have a career best year

Coeus

Okay, I'll throw my predictions in the ring...

AL East - Rays
AL Central - Tigers
AL West - Mariners
AL Wild Cards - Red Sox, Royals

NL East - Nationals
NL Central - Cardinals
NL West - Dodgers
NL Wild Cards - Braves, Reds

World Series Champions - Nationals over Tigers

AL MVP - Mike Trout
NL MVP - Freddie Freeman
AL Cy Young - Felix Hernandez
NL Cy Young - Clayton Kershaw
AL Rookie Of The Year - Xander Bogaerts
NL Rookie Of The Year - Billy Hamilton

jack presley

smackbunnybaby wrote: »

So, pop your predictions in here!

Here is an example by Jack Presley from 2013

NLE - Nats
NLC - Reds
NLW - Giants
ALE - Rays
ALC - Tigers
ALW - Angels
NL WCs -Braves, Cardinals.
AL WCs - Blue Jays, Rangers

AL MVP - Trout
NL MVP - Harper
AL Cy - Darvish
NL Cy - Strasburg
AL Rookie - Myers
NL Rookie - No idea!

World Series - Tigers beating the Nats in 6.

and 8-10 went even further with his divisional positions:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=83878501&postcount=2

Oh thanks a lot. Use my pathetic effort as the example!

jack presley

Morrison J wrote: »

NL Wild Cards - Yankees, Giants
AL Wild Cards - Angels, Royals

Typo with your NL wild card!

Morrison J

jack presley wrote: »

Typo with your NL wild card!

Knew I'd balls it up somewhere. Good spot and now edited.

8-10

Posted my division Over/Unders here yesterday but had actually calulated win totals per team. Putting them in divisions looks like this (standard predictions layout below tables)





AL East - Rays
AL Central - Tigers
AL West - Rangers
AL Wild Cards - Red Sox, Indians

NL East - Nationals
NL Central - Cardinals
NL West - Dodgers
NL Wild Cards - Braves, Reds

World Series Winner - St Louis Cardinals over Texas Rangers

AL MVP - Mike Trout
NL MVP - Bryce Harper
AL Cy Young - Felix Hernandez
NL Cy Young - Stephen Strasburg
AL Jackie Robinson Award - Jose Abreu
NL Jackie Robinson Award - Oscar Taveras

Benimar

AL East - Rays
AL Central - Tigers
AL West - Rangers
AL Wild Cards - Red Sox, Angels

NL East - Nationals
NL Central - Cardinals
NL West - Dodgers
NL Wild Cards - Giants, Reds

World Series Champions - Cardinals over Rays

AL MVP - Mike Trout
NL MVP - Joey Votto
AL Cy Young - David Price
NL Cy Young - Clayton Kershaw
AL Rookie Of The Year - Xander Bogaerts
NL Rookie Of The Year - Kolten Wong

Benimar

There is something amiss with your predictions 8-10. The Nats are playing 165 games and the Braves only 159, a distinct advantage :-)

8-10

Benimar wrote: »

There is something amiss with your predictions 8-10. The Nats are playing 165 games and the Braves only 159, a distinct advantage :-)

Nice spot I presume it's the vlookups, will repost!

Fixed now. Glad somebody's paying attention!

Kinda32

AL East - Rays
AL Central - Tigers
AL West - Angels
AL Wild Cards - Royals, Athletics

NL East - Nationals
NL Central - Cardinals
NL West - Dodgers
NL Wild Cards - Braves, Pirates

World Series Champions - Dodgers over Rays

AL MVP - Mike Trout
NL MVP - Bryce Harper
AL Cy Young - David Price
NL Cy Young - Clayton Kershaw
AL Rookie Of The Year - Xander Bogaerts
NL Rookie Of The Year - Archie Bradley

Waitsian

If the Blue Jays stay healthy it'll throw a spanner into a lot of these predictions, don't write them off, will surprise more than a few.

The Reservoir Dubs Anchorman

AL East - Blue Jays
AL Central - Tigers
AL West - Rangers
AL Wild Cards - Rays, Angels

NL East - Nationals
NL Central - Pirates
NL West - Dodgers
NL Wild Cards - Cardinals, Giants
World Series Champions - Nationals over the Tigers

AL MVP - Miguel Cabrera
NL MVP - Jason Werth
AL Cy Young - Yu Darvish
NL Cy Young - Stephen Strasbourg
AL Rookie Of The Year - Yordana Ventura
NL Rookie Of The Year - Billy Hamilton (However if Zach Walters gets a run in the team for the Nats he will be in the conversation)

Morrison J

Miami Marlins over 69.5 wins at 10/11

Some of you may think I'm mad but I think thats a really good bet. Marlins are coming in under the radar this year. Genuinely think they'll be closer to 80 wins.

annelin

yea they are really good bet

jack presley

annelin wrote: »

yea they are really good bet

I too think Miami are going to be better than some expect. They'll definitely win more than 70 games. Won't compete with Washington or Atlanta but might be fun to watch. Some good young arms apparently in addition to fernandez

8-10

jack presley wrote: »

I too think Miami are going to be better than some expect. They'll definitely win more than 70 games. Won't compete with Washington or Atlanta but might be fun to watch. Some good young arms apparently in addition to fernandez

Buster Olney was pretty bullish on them the other day too, said a scout told him they'd be better than the Braves.

I'm not with you guys at all. They could easily save more runs this year but I don't see a major increase in runs scored. A full season of Yelich and Stanton will help but the only team they have a chance of outperforming is the Phillies. I'll happily take the under (and have!)

smackbunnybaby

AL East - Red Sox
AL Central - Tigers
AL West - Oakland
AL Wild Cards - Yankees, Texas

NL East - Nationals
NL Central - Cardinals
NL West - Dodgers
NL Wild Cards - Cincinnati, Braves

World Series Champions - Tigers over the Cardinals

AL MVP - Miguel Cabrera
NL MVP - Some Cardinal
AL Cy Young - Yu Darvish
NL Cy Young - Clayton Kershaw
AL Rookie Of The Year - Bogaerts (?)
NL Rookie Of The Year - Javier Baez

Coeus

jack presley wrote: »

I too think Miami are going to be better than some expect. They'll definitely win more than 70 games. Won't compete with Washington or Atlanta but might be fun to watch. Some good young arms apparently in addition to fernandez

They only need to win 8 more games this season. They will have a full season of Fernandez, a full season of an injury free "happy" Stanton plus their younger players have an extra year under their belt. Definitely possible!

8-10

Coeus wrote: »

They only need to win 8 more games this season. They will have a full season of Fernandez, a full season of an injury free "happy" Stanton plus their younger players have an extra year under their belt. Definitely possible!

If you're a fan of Pythagorean Expectation you'll see that they actually scored and allowed enough runs to win 64 games, so they actually only need an extra 6 wins based on that performance and a bit of luck going their way.

Possible, I'm just not backing it.

jack presley

AL East - Rays
AL Central - Tigers
AL West - As
AL Wild Cards - Red Sox, Royals

NL East - Nationals
NL Central - Cardinals
NL West - Dodgers
NL Wild Cards - Reds, Braves

World Series Champions - Tigers over Nationals

AL MVP - Trout
NL MVP - Harper
AL Cy Young - Scherzer
NL Cy Young - Fernandez
AL Rookie Of The Year - Tanaka
NL Rookie Of The Year - Tavares

jack presley

NL East - Nationals
NL Central - Cardinals
NL West - Dodgers
NL Wild Cards - Reds, Braves

Have you noticed how many of us have this combination for the NL? Baseball can't be that predictable can it?

The Reservoir Dubs Anchorman

jack presley wrote: »

Have you noticed how many of us have this combination for the NL? Baseball can't be that predictable can it?

Its pretty predictable! :-)

The Reservoir Dubs Anchorman

8-10 wrote: »

If you're a fan of Pythagorean Expectation you'll see that they actually scored and allowed enough runs to win 64 games, so they actually only need an extra 6 wins based on that performance and a bit of luck going their way.

Possible, I'm just not backing it.

I think the Braves pitching problems will enable Miami to go above 70 wins.

Coeus

Coeus wrote: »

NL Cy Young - Clayton Kershaw

After watching Fernandez last night I not so sure about this pick anymore...

Morrison J

Rangers injury crisis kicked in once I tipped them to win the AL West. Can't say I'm too confident on that one anymore!

jack presley

jack presley wrote: »

AL East - Rays
AL Central - Tigers
AL West - As
AL Wild Cards - Red Sox, Royals

NL East - Nationals
NL Central - Cardinals
NL West - Dodgers
NL Wild Cards - Reds, Braves

World Series Champions - Tigers over Nationals

AL MVP - Trout
NL MVP - Harper
AL Cy Young - Scherzer
NL Cy Young - Fernandez
AL Rookie Of The Year - Tanaka
NL Rookie Of The Year - Tavares

As we're basically at the mid way point, time to look in and see how we're doing with our picks. I think most people had pretty similar outcomes for the NL and although they may have been slow to get there, I think the Dodgers/Nationals will probably take control of their divisions now. The Brewers of course are the surprise package in the Central but they just got swept so if it's not just a one series blip, they might come back to the pack a bit to give our Cardinals/Reds combo a shot.

The less said about the Rays in the AL the better! And the Red Sox don't look too good for that wild card spot either.

Apart from Tanaka as ROTY, i can't see too many of my individual predictions coming good either.

Waitsian

mod9maple wrote: »

If the Blue Jays stay healthy it'll throw a spanner into a lot of these predictions, don't write them off, will surprise more than a few.

Hate to tell anyway I told them so but...:D

Morrison J

Morrison J wrote: »

Gonna finish with a few bold (maybe mental) predictions:
The Brewers will finish above the Pirates in their division.
The Marlins will not finish bottom of the NL East.
Jedd Gyorko will be an All Star
Prince Fielder will have a career best year

Two pretty good looking predictions, two absolutely woeful ones..:p

The Reservoir Dubs Anchorman

The Reservoir Dubs Anchorman wrote: »

AL East - Blue Jays
AL Central - Tigers
AL West - Rangers
AL Wild Cards - Rays, Angels

NL East - Nationals
NL Central - Pirates
NL West - Dodgers
NL Wild Cards - Cardinals, Giants
World Series Champions - Nationals over the Tigers

AL MVP - Miguel Cabrera
NL MVP - Jason Werth
AL Cy Young - Yu Darvish
NL Cy Young - Stephen Strasbourg
AL Rookie Of The Year - Yordana Ventura
NL Rookie Of The Year - Billy Hamilton (However if Zach Walters gets a run in the team for the Nats he will be in the conversation)

Not horrible thus far