CHOPTALK said:87 wins, wins that division. Look out for Baltimore. A real sleeper. The Yanks and the Sox both have real issues.
RJ is well over 40 now. Last season was not a fluke. It was a sign of things to come.
Mussiana was below average last season. Especially after the Allstar break.
Thats your #1 and #2 starters.
Does anyone honestly believe Chacon is going to do what he did last season? Come on folks. It aint happening. Then you have a still unproven Chin-Ming-Wong comming off of a major injury.
The Yankees have a real shot of imploding this season. The RedSox are not much better off. The loss of Daman hurts them more than it helps the Yankees.
The pitching is very supect, the starters and the closers.
Toronto just because they spent a bunch of money on players does not make them a good team automaticly. They way overspent for all there free agents this season.
Baltimore has a fighting chance. You heard it hear first.
Journeyman said:I would be shocked if no AL EAST team won 95 games
CHOPTALK said:Just remember this thread come October.
The AL East is by far the weakest division in the American League and the 2nd weakest division in all of baseball.
No Pitching.
koidog said:Compared to whom? I mean who in the AL is better than the Yanks or Sox?
I'd say the White Sox and that's about it. And lets face it they did have a lot go right last year.
small going 10-0 out of no where didnt hurt anything eitherCHOPTALK said:The Yankees remind me of the Texas Rangers of the late 90s. A bunch of hitters with no pitching.
Does everyone realize just how close the Yankees came last season to missing the playoffs all together.
If it had not been for what Chacon and Cook did in the second half of the season, they would not even have even made the playoffs.
Johney Damon was not the answer. The Yankess already score plenty of runs. They need more youth in the pitching department. Cashman/Stienbrenner are horriable GMs.
Journeyman said:Toronto has no pitching?
RobFunk said:small going 10-0 out of no where didnt hurt anything either
CHOPTALK said:Toronto has a decent staff with no offense. Troy Glaus is not going to solve there problems.
I think Haliday is the best pitcher in the AL.
Baltimore
Toronto
NYYanks
Boston
Tampa
Go Ahead and laugh.
CHOPTALK said:Toronto has a decent staff with no offense. Troy Glaus is not going to solve there problems.
I think Haliday is the best pitcher in the AL.
Baltimore
Toronto
NYYanks
Boston
Tampa
Go Ahead and laugh.
Journeyman said:The best staffs in the AL are Cle, Chi and Oak...
To say Toronto doesn't have a good offense though? And the Orioles do lol? The Orioles had nothing after Mora and Tejada last season, they have done very little to improve...Who is going to protect Tejada? His production fell off considerably once pitchers stopped pitching to him.
Roberts , Mora , Tejada , that is a great 1-2-3 !
I think the two best teams are in the Central. Cleveland and Chicago .
With all those bats and Johnson and Mussina still there the Yankees cannot just be forgotten.