Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
March 16, 2007
Go West

The Baseball Analysts hold a round table on the AL West. Jeff Sullivan talks about the Mariners:

I think I've written "the Mariners are the worst team in a weak division" a million times this winter, but it seems like every time I do, I come away even less impressed with the best than I was before. Put simply, neither Oakland nor Anaheim are very good, and there might only be a five- or six-win separation between the top and bottom rosters in the group. That's a tiny, tiny gap, and the sort of thing that makes for a wild September.

Having read Lookout Landing all winter, I was expecting this team to be really bad. But when I looked at the team for my podcast two weeks ago, I was surprised at just how competitive they are with the rest of the division. Mostly, there's a lot of room for improvement and not much room for players to do worse than last year. In a way, they remind me of the Tigers at the start of 2006. If everything goes well, if everyone stays healthy, if they get a great season from Hernandez, they can win the division. Now, I'm talking about Hernandez having a Gooden 1985/Clemens 1986 type season, but stranger things have happened. It should be a fun division race.


Posted by David Pinto at 11:31 AM | Team Evaluation | TrackBack (0)
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Every division looks like its races are going to go down to the wire. The west as discussed above. In the Central, the 4th place team of last season is a trendy pick to win the division, and the White Sox, Tigers and Twins should all be good this season. In the East, the Jays, the Red Sox and the Yankees have all improved themselves from last season. This could be the most exciting regular season in recent history

Posted by: Dan at March 16, 2007 05:50 PM
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