2012 MLB Season

Equality 7-2521 wrote: manofmystery wrote: Equality 7-2521 wrote: I sincerely doubt that the Tigers win 100 games.      They are by far the best team in the worst division of a very top-heavy league.    Also, I agree with seemingly everyone here that the playoff expansion is a bad idea.  I'd say moronic, myself.  Playing in the snow won't solve their current problem of baseball becoming irrelevant as soon as fantasy baseball playoffs end (seriously, it's the only thing keeping the league alive). Don't get me wrong I see your logic, but I think most of that team overperformed last year while the Twins very much underperformed.

 

Nah not unreasonable and hey, there have been times throughout sports you kinda shake your head at who went so far, but  that's why its a playoffs! One series or not still got beat those better teams.

I'd like the Yanks to actually win one series in play offs for once.

Unrelated wonder how the Sahx will respond to their record collapse. Want to say they'll get over it but the Mets never recovered from their epic collapse, I wouldn't mind the same fate falling on Boston!

I like the Cardinals so whatever
Happens every year anyway "gahhhh (x) really didn't deserve it, they had this and that and (y) was really a better team and etc" unless we go to no playoffs and base it purely on record not sure what some people want.

But yeah boo new playoffs and anything could happen but it does stand to logic the Cards won't be up to par this year. In the next couple of years though, who knows? I'd like to see them succeed.

manofmystery wrote: Equality 7-2521 wrote: I sincerely doubt that the Tigers win 100 games.      They are by far the best team in the worst division of a very top-heavy league.    Also, I agree with seemingly everyone here that the playoff expansion is a bad idea.  I'd say moronic, myself.  Playing in the snow won't solve their current problem of baseball becoming irrelevant as soon as fantasy baseball playoffs end (seriously, it's the only thing keeping the league alive).

Don't get me wrong I see your logic, but I think most of that team overperformed last year while the Twins very much underperformed.

Yes the new system is idiotic.

The thing about St. Louis is that they shouldn't have even made the playoffs last year WITH the best hitter in the game (well, second or third best at this point).

The thing about St. Louis is that they have loads of young talent, from David Freese to Jamie Garcia to Jon Jay to Alan Craig and countless others.  They're only going to get better, and they have more than enough bats to make up for Pujols' departure.

manofmystery wrote:   CENTRAL (this is a tough one because I don't think any of these teams are particularly good): Cincinnati Reds: 90-72 Milwaukee Brewers: 86-76 St. Louis Still-Gonna-Throw-at-Ryan-Braun's-Head: 85-77 Pittsburgh Suckos: 76-86 Chicago Cubs: 74-88 Houston Astros: 60-102

Equality 7-2521 wrote: I sincerely doubt that the Tigers win 100 games.

   

Catcher10 wrote: ^ The regular season means nothing....its a glorified. extended pre-season. What is it now, a 1/3 of the teams will make the playoffs now? Close this thread till October.

It's been hard for me to care much about what goes on until the post-season gets near.  Having so many games per season of course waters down the importance of any one game (in stark contrast to NFL football), and the new playoff rules now, as you mentioned, add more wild cards into the pot.  Back when I religiously followed baseball statistics, it was fun to check out box scores and batting/pitching stats in the paper, but now that I care less about that, there's little reason to really pay close attention.

The Braves are my team.  They're not the dominant team they were in the 1990s, and our city has gotten in the habit of poo-pooing the team any time they fall short of getting to the World Series (which is most of the time now).  There are some great young players on the Braves now, including last year's Rookie of the Year (closer Craig Kimbrell) and the close runner up (1st baseman Freddie Freeman).  We've always had a pretty good to great pitching staff, but the batting has been pretty weak in recent years.  I'm hoping some of these guys can start hitting more consistently.  Last year's end-of-season collapse was almost admirable in its total and utter unthinkable crappiness.

GoldenGod2112 wrote: Go Mariners....