It’s now time to get into the big boy awards. Today we will look at our predictions for the American League and National League Cy Young award winners and tomorrow, we will get into predicting the MVP award winners. Let’s get right into it. American League Candidates: C.C. Sabathia, Jon Lester, Justin Verlander, Jered Weaver, [...]
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Prediction week keeps off here at The Baseball Index with predicting who will win the American League and National League Comeback Player of the Year award. Last year, Jacoby Ellsbury of the Boston Red Sox and Lance Berkman of the St. Louis Cardinals took home the awards. Let’s see who the candidates are this year [...]
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Last but not least in our “Key” player series is the American League West. This division is basically the haves vs. the have nots. Let’s take a look at some of the key players in this division. Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim – Vernon Wells: The Angels shocked baseball last winter when they took Wells [...]
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For the 15th consecutive year, my friends and I got together for our fantasy baseball draft. Well, we really don’t get together because there are 12 of us in seven different states ranging from New York to Massachusetts to Georgia to California. As you could imagine, coordinating a time for all of us to sit [...]
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On Friday, we took a very early look at some National League postseason predictions, so it’s only fitting that we take a look at some early American League postseason predictions. American League East 1. Z – Tampa Bay Rays: A full year of Matt Moore and Desmond Jennings and Evan Longoria, B.J. Upton, and David [...]
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If the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim are going to win with Albert Pujols, they are going to have to surround him with some talent. Over the weekend, the Angels made sure their left side of the infield will be intact for at least the next four seasons. The Angels and 2B Howie Kendrick agreed [...]
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