2007 Baseball Season Preview and Predictions Part II

I've decided to predict full standings, sans records, just because.

NL East:
Phillies
Mets
Braves
Marlins
Nationals

NL Central
Cubs
Cardinals
Brewers
Astros
Reds
Pirates

NL West
Giants
Dodgers
Padres
Diamondbacks
Rockies

AL East
Yankees
Blue Jays
Red Sox
Orioles
Devil Rays

AL Central
Twins
Indians
Tigers
White Sox
Royals

AL West
Angels
Athletics
Rangers
Mariners

There's been a lot of talk about how five players could reach the 500 homerun mark this season. Well, guess what -- Gary Sheffield will not be setting a new career high in homers, and, as such, will not be joining the club. Also, at least one other will fall short.

Roger Clemens will come back and best last season's paltry win total. At least he will if he doesn't come back for the Astros. They gave horrible run support to Nolan Ryan (who once won an ERA title while going 8-16 with them), and lately they've done it to Clemens. Something about disrespecting (or over-respecting?) their native sons .... If Clemens would give up on this retiring for the first third of the season junk, he could certainly move into third place on the all-time wins list, and possibly even pass 400 (not this season, of course).

It seems that ESPN is having major issues with their fantasy game. You'd think they would have tested this all out before the season started. They have issues with locking players for future dates and not displaying teams, both of which hinder efforts to edit your roster, and with adding players to your team. I suppose you get what you pay for. While I'm on the subject of complaining about fantasy set-ups, the new Yahoo drag-and-drop lineup editor is nice, except I'm a compulsive text highlighter and whenever I go to highlight a player's stats, it has me dragging the player instead. Nuts to that.