Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!lsuc!pesnta!amdcad!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-vlnvax!schneider From: schneider@vlnvax.DEC Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball Subject: Re: Predictions Message-ID: <486@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 15:33:24 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.486 Posted: Thu Feb 7 15:33:24 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Feb-85 09:54:05 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 35 > 1985 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL GUESSTIMATES > > NATIONAL LEAGUE AMERICAN LEAGUE > > EAST WEST EAST WEST > > New York Atlanta Detroit Chicago > Chicago San Diego Toronto Minnesota > Pittsburgh Los Angeles Boston Oakland > Philadelphia Houston Baltimore Kansas City > Montreal Cincinnati New York California > St. Louis San Fransisco Cleveland Seattle > Milwaukee Texas > Whooaa!! Hold on there. As a self-described AL East expert I beg to disagree. If the Yankees finish behind the Red Sox I'll eat my hat or cry for a week or both. The Sox may look good, but its a bit much to expect their three young pitchers (Clemans,Boyd,and ???) to become big winners with about 4 months of major league ball behind them. Their starting lineup is quite good (even taking into account Fenway) but getting on in age. My analysis is they'll go as far as the staff will take them which might be in front of Baltimore (a lot of trouble spots, but look for big things from Freddie Lynn) to fourth. The Yankees should come in at least third and if any of their pitching questions are answered they can go all the way. Removing the contingencies I'd say it looks like this: Toronto, Detroit, New York, Baltimore, Boston, Cleveland, Milwaukee. Its definitely the most competitive division in baseball and therefore probably the most interesting. If we can get some discussion rolling I'll get in depth. Until then I'll let you off easy. Daniel Schneider {...decvax}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-vlnvax!schneider