I'll say 88.5.
With how the AL Central is the line of 85 is reasonable... the young pitchers will struggle to throw all those innings once again and there strike out prone offense might catch up to them this year... I look for them to have a set back year but this team will be good for a while... With the White Sox and Indians coming back strong the Tigers will finish third but I don't think the third place team in a division can get 90 wins again do you? That would be insane... also I think the Twins will be around .500 or a little better and there is no way that there can be that many wins in the division... I say the Sox get between 93-96 and win the division indians between 90-93 and make the wild card and the twins and Tigers stay about 500 between 82-90 wins on the year... the divsion has so many good teams that it is hard to put the third best team in the division at 90+ wins... and I know the Tigers went to the world series but the White Sox staff had a career down year and still won that many games... With Buerhle back and healthy and Garland growing... along side of Contreras and the 12-15 that Vazquez can win they should get there division crown but in no way will it be easy... I just like the lineup and balance of Cleveland and the White Sox and this sounds funny, but after watching how the White Sox bounced back from playing that late into the season... I think the two teams missing the playoffs helped significantly... Because the Tigers pitchers are young and young guys will struggle to throw 200 innings in back to back years I mean look at how they finished in the second half... but 77 is unreal... 85-87 wins from the tigers this year
The Sox are much better then they were the year they won the world series... And I am a sox fan... they were just to inconsistent last year at the plate and on the mound... they are hands down the most complete team in the division...
there leadoff spot is in question but Podsednik seems to play well every other year haha... But after that there lineup is the best in the game... besides maybe the yankees...
There pitching staff is deep and has a lot of horses and there bullpen is very very very good... Bobby Jenks is one of the best in the game and there staff seemed to have dead arms after the world series... they will be very hungry this year and they feed off doubters... I think the other teams got better but the Sox just got more complete... they are a very very very good team... I would not be surprised to see them raising the trophy again this year but they still have questions... and the biggest is will they have a 5th starter step up... I can g'tee if they get 11-13 wins out of there fifth starter they will win 95+ games and be in the playoffs... And if htey don't they will be in trouble.
I started it at 88, dropped it down to 87 and settled on 86.5....I thought about how they performed the last 45 days of the regular season and lowered it some....does anyone have win totals out anywhere that you know of?
May as well get this out of the way now, where do you put the Cubs line at 90-what? :lolBIG:
The Sox are much better then they were the year they won the world series... And I am a sox fan... they were just to inconsistent last year at the plate and on the mound... they are hands down the most complete team in the division...
there leadoff spot is in question but Podsednik seems to play well every other year haha... But after that there lineup is the best in the game... besides maybe the yankees...
There pitching staff is deep and has a lot of horses and there bullpen is very very very good... Bobby Jenks is one of the best in the game and there staff seemed to have dead arms after the world series... they will be very hungry this year and they feed off doubters... I think the other teams got better but the Sox just got more complete... they are a very very very good team... I would not be surprised to see them raising the trophy again this year but they still have questions... and the biggest is will they have a 5th starter step up... I can g'tee if they get 11-13 wins out of there fifth starter they will win 95+ games and be in the playoffs... And if htey don't they will be in trouble.