Postseason Picks?
by SmokeyJoeWood on Oct 2, 2006 7:51 AM EDT
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PrintSo, now that the playoff picture is finally set, what is everyone's postseason picks?
I'll give it a shot:
Twins over A's in 3
Tigers over Yankees in 4
Padres over Cardinals in 5
Dodgers over Mets in 4
Tigers over Twins in 6
Dodgers over Padres in 5
Tigers over Dodgers in 5
ALCS MVP: Craig Monroe
NLCS MVP: Nomar Garciaparra
WS MVP: Joel Zumaya
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Wow
I don't believe the Twinkies or the A's survive the 1st round. Pitching should hurt them and be their Achilles.
A's over Twins in 5.
Yanks over Tigers in 4
Cards over Pads in 4
Mets over Dodgers in 4
A's over Yanks in 6
Mets over Cards in 7
A's over Mets in 6
ALCS MVP - F. Thomas
NLCS MVP - Reyes
WS MVP - Chavez
Tiger Homerism?
With the Tiger's pitching staff, I don't see how they would be an outrageous pick. Their biggest challenge will be getting past the Yankees. If they do that, I think they'll cruise.
by SmokeyJoeWood on Oct 2, 2006 9:20 AM EDT up reply actions
HOMER!!!
I think the Tiger's pitching will actually be their undoing. Verlander hasn't thrown this much in his life and it's starting to show up. Even Bonderman is starting to show signs of fatigue. They are a team who peaked months ago and have been sliding - not a good thing going into post-season.
I agree sort of
My Hopes...
Tigers over Yankees in 5
Cards over Padres in 4
Mets over LA in 3
Tigers over Twins in 6
Mets over Cards in 6
Tigers over Dodgers in 5
ALCS MVP: Magglio Ordonez
NLCS MVP: David Wright
WS MVP: Justin Verlander
Playoffs predictions:
Padres over Cardinals in 4.
Mets over Dodgers in 5.
Yankees over Tigers in 3.
A's over Twins in 5.
League Championship
Padres over Mets in 6.
A's over Yankees in 7.
World Series
Padres over A's in 7.
Playoff heroes:
Jake Peavey/Khalil Greene
Frank Thomas/Rich Harden
huh?
my thought
Twins over A's
Yanks over Tigers
Padres over Cards
Mets over Dodgers
LCS
Twins over Yanks (Mauer, MVP)
Mets over Padres (Wagner, MVP)
WS
Twins over Mets in 4 (Nathan, MVP)
by Azteca on Oct 2, 2006 9:56 AM EDT reply actions
Not to pick too much...
implied here....
by Azteca on Oct 2, 2006 11:52 AM EDT up reply actions
Torn's Thoughts
Twins over A's 4 games - better pitching, hitting for Twins
Yanks over Tigers 4 games - Tigers running out of gas
Padres over Cards 4 games - Carpenter wins one game
Mets over Dodgers 4 games - Mets bash their way through Round one
2nd Round
Twins over Yankees 6 games - better pitching wins
Mets over Padres 6 games - offense offsets arms
World Serious
Twins over Mets 5 games - best team over last 4 months wins
Alternative Series
Ditkas over Twins 4 games - Bears' best D in business, new offense impressive
by Torncuff on Oct 2, 2006 10:47 AM EDT reply actions
DA BEARS!!!
Prediction...
Twins over A's 5 games
Yanks over Tigers 4 games
Padres over Cards 5 games
Mets over Dodgers 4 games
League Championship
Yankees over Twins 6 games (MVP - D.Jeter )
Mets over Padres 6 games (MVP - D.Wright edges Piazza)
WS - Subway!!!
Hurts but Yankees over Mets 7 games (MVP - Arod, ironically)
I'll bite
Yankees over Tigers in 4
Padres over Cardinals in 5
Mets over Dodgers in 4
Twins over Yankees in 7
*Bonus prediction: A-Rod hits .400 with 7 HR in the series, yet is blamed exclusively when they lose.
Mets over Padres in 6
Twins over Mets in 6
ALCS MVP: Justin Morneau
NLCS MVP: Carlos Beltran
WS MVP: Johan Santana
No sweeps... I just think everyone's pitching staff is crappy enough that the other team can beat up on someone at least once in each series. And as an illustration of how much these predictions are worth, I had Indians over Phillies in the WS as my preseason prediction :p
I'm rooting for the Cards with all my might, but..
Twins over Athletics in 5
Tigers over Yankees in 5
Mets over Dodgers in 3
Padres over Cardinals in 4
CS
Tigers over Twins in 6(MVP: Rodriguez)
Padres over Mets in 6(MVP: Wells)
WS
Tigers over Padres in 7(MVP: Bonderman)
No Dodger love
My picks (unbiased I swear... well I pretend)
Twins over A's in 4
Yankees over Tigers in 5
Padres over Cards in 4
Dodgers over Mets in 4
Twins over Yanks in 6 (MVP Mauer)
Dodgers over Padres in 7 (MVP Furcal)
Twins over Dodgers in 6 (MVP Santana)
by benaiah on Oct 2, 2006 12:02 PM EDT reply actions
mets pitching
Huh?
by jc3 on Oct 2, 2006 1:51 PM EDT up reply actions
Picks
Tigers over Yankees in 5
Padres over Cards in 4
Dodgers over Mets in 4
A's over Tigers in 6(MVP Thomas)
Dodgers over Padres in 7(MVP Lowe)
A's over Dodgers in 6(MVP Bradley)
Pretty easy to pick
Twins over A's in 5 (purely on the strength of Santana)
Yankees over Twins in 5 (Only Santana manages to beat them... sense a theme?)
Mets over Dodgers in 5 (Despite losing Pedro, the Mets still have the batters to come out on top_
Padres over Cards in 4 (The Cards are simply weak. Besides Pujols and Carpenter, they have major weaknesses)
Padres over Mets in 7 (Met's pitching staff just doesn't hold up here. Mike Piazza shows them who is boss)
Yankees over Padres in 4 (Once again, the NL doesn't stand a chance)
ALCS MVP: Mike Mussina
NLCS MVP: Mike Piazza
World Series MVP: Alex Rodriguez
by DownFromNJ on Oct 2, 2006 1:22 PM EDT reply actions
Twins over Padres
I'll Shoot
Yanks over Tigers:
I think the Yankees got lucky. Not having the face the twins was huge for them. The tigers are running out of gas, and the yankees pitching in not as bad as it seems. Yankees in 4
MVP: Abreu
Twins over Oakland:
I think Justin Morenu is without a doubt the MVP IMHO. And it will show as the Twins out his the A's by a substainal margin. Twins in a Sweep
MVP: Morenu
NLDS
Mets over Dodgers:
As a met fan i'm pulling for the Mets and can't wait to see glavine vs. Maddux. I'm a little worried but i think the bullpen is great and thats what makes this seris. Mets in 4
MVP: Beltran
Cards over Padres:
I just think the Padres can't hit a lick, and Puljos has been rediculous in the playoffs so far. The Cards bullpen is terrible, but I think Rolen steps it up and they take it. Cards in 5
MVP: Rolen
ALCS
Twins over Yankees:
I think it will be a great seris, but i think Santana wins both games he pitches. I want a subway seris, but i dont see it. Twins in 7
MVP: Santana
NLCS
Mets over Cards:
Maybe some homerism, but i think the Mets get lucky in playing the Cardinals. A team that they have better hitting and overall pitching against. Puljos makes it tough, but i think the Mets would win this one easily. Mets in 5
MVP: Jose Reyes
WS
Twins over Mets:
This is the team i think the mets have the best chance at beating because the mets offense is better, but Santana will overwhelm them pitching games, 1,4,and, 7. Winning just two of them, boof with win his 1st start as well. Both these teams bullpens match up, and the mets have an edge in hitting. Due to the Large advatnage in pitching for the Twin is a No brainer. Twins in 7
Padres hitting
by BaseballBrain on Oct 2, 2006 4:30 PM EDT up reply actions
I'll Shoot
Yanks over Tigers:
I think the Yankees got lucky. Not having the face the twins was huge for them. The tigers are running out of gas, and the yankees pitching in not as bad as it seems. Yankees in 4
MVP: Abreu
Twins over Oakland:
I think Justin Morenu is without a doubt the MVP IMHO. And it will show as the Twins out his the A's by a substainal margin. Twins in a Sweep
MVP: Morenu
NLDS
Mets over Dodgers:
As a met fan i'm pulling for the Mets and can't wait to see glavine vs. Maddux. I'm a little worried but i think the bullpen is great and thats what makes this seris. Mets in 4
MVP: Beltran
Cards over Padres:
I just think the Padres can't hit a lick, and Puljos has been rediculous in the playoffs so far. The Cards bullpen is terrible, but I think Rolen steps it up and they take it. Cards in 5
MVP: Rolen
ALCS
Twins over Yankees:
I think it will be a great seris, but i think Santana wins both games he pitches. I want a subway seris, but i dont see it. Twins in 7
MVP: Santana
NLCS
Mets over Cards:
Maybe some homerism, but i think the Mets get lucky in playing the Cardinals. A team that they have better hitting and overall pitching against. Puljos makes it tough, but i think the Mets would win this one easily. Mets in 5
MVP: Jose Reyes
WS
Twins over Mets:
This is the team i think the mets have the best chance at beating because the mets offense is better, but Santana will overwhelm them pitching games, 1,4,and, 7. Winning just two of them, boof with win his 1st start as well. Both these teams bullpens match up, and the mets have an edge in hitting. Due to the Large advatnage in pitching for the Twin is a No brainer. Twins in 7
MVP: Santana
Giving it a shot
Yankees over Tigers in 4
Twins over A's in 4
Padres over Cardinals in 3
Dodgers over Mets in 4
Round II
Twins over Yankees in 7
Padres over Dodgers in 6
World Series
Twins over Padres in 5
by avehoward on Oct 2, 2006 2:27 PM EDT reply actions
A touch of revision
Yankees def. Tigers in 5
Twins def. A's in 4
Mets def. Dodgers in 4
Padres def. Cardinals in 4
Champeenships:
Twins def. Yankees in 6
Mets def. Padres in 5
Series That Encompasses the World:
Mets def. Twins in 5
Really not sure about the Yankees pitching, but their offense should do enough in the ALDS. All things are possible through the Boof-Johan Connection, of course, so that'll carry Minnesota through. The Cardinals have just completely fallen apart, but I don't know how the Padres have done it. I'll take the great unknown. As for the Mets, they just do everything well enough to beat out everyone else. Can't think of a recent analogy, as the White Sox pitchers made everyone look like fools in 2005 and Boston went super Saiyan in the 2004 ALCS. Don't think you'll get anything like those efforts for a while.
Johan!
Thinking exactly the same way
To the contrary, if Santana ever got beat in Game 1 of any series, the Twins would be in huge trouble. Certainly in more trouble than say if the Yanks lost with Wang or Oakland with Zito because the other areas of those teams (Yanks offense, A's SP depth) can more than make up for a loss by their ace more than the other components of the Twins can.
by jc3 on Oct 2, 2006 4:02 PM EDT up reply actions
Dodgers are underrated
by benaiah on Oct 2, 2006 3:34 PM EDT reply actions
Okay...
A's over the Twins in 5. A's I think have a better staff, and beat Johan in game 5.
Dodgers over the Mets in 5. Mets havent played a meaningful game in months while the Dodgers have basically been in a play-off mindset since the ASB.
Padres over the Cardinals in 4. Carpenter wins his only start. The other three SPs for the Cards give up an average of 6ER per start.
Yankess over the A's in 7. Their bats are just too strong 1 through 9. A's put up a valiant effort though. Robinson Cano is the ALCS MVP.
Padres over the Dodgers in 6. The Padres pitching staff is just too good. No game is decided by more than three runs though. Josh Bard NLCS MVP for hitting 2 HR, one off Saito in a pinch hit situation and the other off Dessens.
Padres over the Yanks in 7. Wow... when I started this post I didnt expect to have that as my final answer... ummm. Go Padres? I aint even a SD fan! Jake Peavy wins the WS MVP.
Tigers vs. Yankees
Game 1
Wang pitches solid giving up 3 runs in 7 and the pen does the rest
Robertson goes 7 as well giving up 4 and the pen gives up another.
Game 2
Mussina pitches 8 innings giving up 2
Verlander pitches 7 innings giving up 2, but the pen gets the loss.
Game 3
RJ gets shelled for 7 runs in 5
The gambler goes 6 innings giving up 3 and the Tigers barely hold on.
Game 4
J.Wright Pitches 5 innings of 3 run ball but the pen implodes especially after being overworked the game before.
Bonderman struggles early but holds on for 7 innings of 4 run ball and gets the win.
Game 5
Wang pitches 6 innings giving up 4 runs.
Westbrook gives up 5 runs in 2 innings getting pulled. The Yankees go on to route the Tigers.
IMO - I really think Yankees will win game 1 and lose game 3 & 4. Game 2 will be a great matchup and game 5 will probably be the Yankees if it goes that far. I'm thinking it's 50/50 who wins this series but would never bet against the Yankees.
Westbrook? Who are you referring to?
Nice analytical prediction of the Tigers-Yankees series; in fact, you weren't too far off in Game 1 when it came to Wang.
However, I'm not sure who you mean by "Westbrook" in Game 5 for the Tigers. Do they have a "Westbrook" I don't know about it; do you mean Robertson, Grilli, Miner? The only "Westbrook" I know of who plays MLB is Jake Westbrook of the Indians.
Please elaborate - thanks! :-)
Take care and have a great day!
Meant to say!
I meant to say,
"Do they have a "Westbrook" I don't know about; do you mean Robertson, Grilli, Miner?"
Take care and have a great day!
I blame it on beer, too much beer or too little be
did you watch the game? I really didn't know much about Wang. Holy SH*T I really was wrong about this guy. I thought he would have great offspeed stuff with a decent sinker. I didn't see one decent offspeed pitch all night. Granted I didn't see the whole game. But he was throwing a 96 mile sinking heater that was amazing. Sometimes it only moved average for that heat. The problem I saw is he offered nothing else. If this guy had quality slider/curve/change he would be ace material.
I totally overestimated his pitchability and totally underestimated his stuff. But ended in the same place :)))))
I watched a good portion of the game!
Yes, I watched at least 70-80% of the game. I agree that Wang kept getting the Tigers to beat it into the ground, though it would have been interesting to see how Wang would have responded if the Tigers had scored some runs in the 2nd and 3rd innings. I hope Fausto Carmona can do a Wang imitation (to some extent at least) next year.
As for Robertson, this is why I have serious doubts about the Tigers in this series - yes, he had a nice September, but Robertson is not a guy you want to have starting a Game 1 and a Game 5! He arguably is the weakest of the Tigers' starting quartet, as his margin for error is too small, and once the hits start coming, it seems he has a very difficult time trying to stop the bleeding - that's why he gave up 5 runs in the 3rd inning. Then, he gave up those two runs in the 6th, just when the Tigers were in a position to actually come back and take the lead.
The Tigers really need Verlander to pitch like he did early this season; if they can somehow win Game 2, this series could go 5 games. If the Tigers lose Game 2, it's possible this series might only go 3, though it's possible it could go 4, but I wouldn't expect it to go 5 if the Tigers lose again tonight, and 4 might be a stretch if the Tigers can't take advantage of the excitement generated by their home crowd in Game 3 and/or Rogers falters.
Take care and have a great day!
hi IndiansFan!
I'm still liking Detroits chances. I think tomorrows game will be a good one. I hope the kid keeps his composure.
If the Tigers can steal one tomorrow - and I do think it will be a little of a steal considering they are facing Mussina - then the Tigers are the favorites IMO. Because then its Rogers & Bondo vs RJ and Wright. If they win tomorrow I wouldn't be suprised if they run the table.
At the moment I think Carmonas upside is Wang. If he learns to keep his composure and pitches smart. He has the stuff. What both of them lack is a major league out pitch IMO.
My bite
Twins over A's in 5 (MVP, Santana)
Dodgers over Mets in 5 (MVP, Saito)
Padres over Cards in 4 (MVP, Hoffman)
The only real questionmark is the Dodger /Mets series. but I just think the Mets SP is simply too abysmal to make it, the Dodger staff have some serious unpredictability as well. but the upside is simply much better.
CS
Yankees over Twins in 5 (MVP, major toss up. )
Doger over the Padres in 6 (MVP Kuo!!)
Yankees catch a break, facing Twins in CS is siginficantly easier, espically if the A's and Twins go into game 5 as I predicted (meaning they can't throw out Santana 3 times) whoever wins the MVP is really up in the air, but probably either Wang or again someone with a bat.
Dodgers and Padres are a hard call, but I like Dodgers a lot right now, and they got progressively better as the season went on. I think Kuo will win both start and grab the MVP here.
WS
Yankees over Dodgers in 5, MVP, Chien Ming Wang.
(Yes i'm from Taiwan :P .. still though, if the Yanks win the WS Wang getting a MVP along the way seems highly likely)
yankees
twins over a's in 4
cards over padres in 5 (I want the padres, but I don't usually get what I want)
dodgers over mets in 5
yankees over twins in 6 (rivera mvp)
dodgers over cardinals in 6 (kent mvp)
yankees (lineup just too tough) over dodgers in 5 (Abreu mvp)
here goes nothing
Padres over Cardinals in 4
Twins over A's in 5
Yankees over Tigers in 4
Mets over Padres in 5 (MVP: Tom Glavine)
Yankees over Twins in 6 (MVP: Bobby Abreu)
Yankees over Mets in 5 (MVP: Jason Giambi)
Time to revise your picks?
by FunWithHeadlines on Oct 3, 2006 3:46 PM EDT reply actions
Not for me
Reasons to still believe
by FunWithHeadlines on Oct 4, 2006 4:27 PM EDT up reply actions
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