2010 MLB Prediction Preview: The Media Loves the Phillies, Cardinals and Yankees
By Geoff Decker
ESPN has an unprecedented prediction page this year: 36 ESPN media members. Elsewhere, FanHouse posted predictions for 13 mostly obscure bloggers, which is twice as many as The Boston Globe, The St. Louis Dispatch, and CBSSports.com and equal to that of Sports Illustrated.
Baseball Prospectus staffers are also on the list and they do not like the Yankees. While everyone else picked the pinstripes to win the AL East, BP are bigger fans of the Red Sox. Seven staffers picked, compared to only four for the Yankees and two for the Rays.
Also collected are predictions of several individuals. At the All Star Break, we’ll have the complete ranked list of individual media member predictions. For now, here’s the breakdown of how each team is favored in their division, according to their predictions (out of 108 media members):
AL East
Yankees: 76
Red Sox: 24
Rays: 8
AL Central
Twins: 50
White Sox: 42
Tigers: 16
AL West:
Angels: 52
Rangers: 29
Mariners: 25
Athletics: 2 (BP Projection and BP’s John Perrotto)
NL East
Phillies: 100
Braves: 7
Marlins: 1 (AJ Mass of ESPN)
NL Central
Cards: 90
Reds: 9
Brewers: 5
Cubs: 4
NL West
Rockies: 68
Dodgers: 26
Giants: 11
DBacks: 4