Spring Training 2011

Well its that time again. Spring Training! Time to ask the questions and make the predictions for 2011. Its fun to do it before Spring Training even gets rolling. Makes everything much more of a crapshoot:

Who will being playing deep into October? Will the Phillies incredible rotation live up to expectations? (hint: yes if they remain healthy)? Will Ollie be good Ollie or bad Ollie. Will he even make the team?

Here are my 2011 Predictions:

AL East: Boston
AL Central: Minnesota
AL West: Oakland
Wild Card: Yankees

NL East: Phillie
NL Central: Milwaukee
NL West: San Fran
NL Wild Card: NY Mets

(Oakland and the Mets being my outlandish 1:100 guesses)

World Series: Milwaukee and Minnesota for the Great Lakes Battle
Milwaukee wins it all

Oliver Perez makes the team out of Spring Training as a reliever. Gets a few starts due to injuries. Johan Santana comes back on July 1. Ollie is cut on July 2. Milwaukee signs him on July 4 for the league minimum and has a huge second half - helping them win the series.

There are my silly predictions. I may get into some individual awards later in Spring training, but I doubt it. It's hard to keep interest in the blog when the subject is just so bad. (read: I have lost hope)

That said. I hope its a great 2011 season. I hope I continue to have reasons to post here, as you can see through the post history - there hasn't been much in the last 2 years.