Since 2008 the Baltimore Orioles have been the bottom feeders of the toughest division in baseball, the AL East. Last season the O’s finished with a 69-93 record, which marked the franchise’s 14th consecutive losing season. The O’s did end 2011 on a positive note, winning 11 of their last 18 games and eliminated the [...]
2012 MLB Team Preview: New York Mets
April 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Since their infamous 2007 collapse, the New York Mets just can’t seem to get a break. Last season the Mets finished fourth in the NL East winning with a 77-85 record, which is not so bad considering the team was riddled with injuries. The Mets and their fans have to believe that things will get [...]
2012 MLB Team Preview: Cleveland Indians
April 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The 2011 Cleveland Indians came out of the gate hot last season, and were first in the AL Central up until July 20th having won 51 games. Following that day, the Tribe only won 29 more games in 2011, and finished the season a distant second with 15 games separating them and the division leading [...]
2012 MLB Team Preview: Philadelphia Phillies
March 29, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The Philadelphia Phillies have been a force in Major League Baseball, winning 102 games in 2011. Over the past five years the Phillies have built a résumé that includes NL East champs five times; 2008 World Series Champs, almost repeating again in 2009; and played in the NLDS the last two seasons. This ball-club is [...]
Where Bronx Bombers be standing come October?
March 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Where will the Bronx Bombers, and the 29 other teams be standing come October? Do you know how each division will look at the end of the 2012 MLB season? Well, I guess it is the perfect time to make some predictions, so might as well start with mine. Here is how I think the [...]
2012 MLB Team Preview: Minnesota Twins
March 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The Minnesota Twins plunged to the bottom of the AL Central in 2011 finishing with a 63-99 record, which was the second worst in baseball. In 2010, the Twins won 94 games and captured their second-straight American League Central title, which is why last season’s fall, came unexpectedly. It just seemed like everything in Minnesota went [...]
2012 MLB Team Preview: Atlanta Braves
March 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Heading into 2011, the Atlanta Braves were a championship caliber team and played that way for the first five months of the season. The Braves were the NL’s version of the Red Sox, arriving in September with an 8.5 game lead for the wild card only to blow it and land in a jam. The [...]
2012 MLB Team Preview: Toronto Blue Jays
March 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
For the fourth consecutive year, the Toronto Blue Jays finished in fourth place in the AL East in 2011 and continue to be a .500 team. In 2011, the Jays knocked in 186 homers, the fifth best in the Majors; and their 743 run total was the sixth most. The team’s batting average was .249 [...]
2012 MLB Team Preview: Cincinnati Reds
March 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Coming into 2011, the Cincinnati Reds were coming off a 91-game winning season and were the NL CentralChampions. Yes, the 2010 Reds finish came as a surprise but no one thought their luck would run out like it did in 2011. Last year the Reds finished in third place in the NL Central with a [...]
