Keep the kids at home and eat hot dogs and cracker jack! For one day everyone is tied and anything can happen. Opening Day is like graduating high school. The whole world is ahead of you. You can be anything! Uh oh. The Nats got busted for selling pot at a graduation party! Looks like they are headed down the wrong path! Breaking up with Juanita? That was the only good thing the Nats had going for them! Ohhhh this is going to be rough
Predicted wins : I'm an optimist 64 wins.
Win leader : Gore 9
Meneses OPS+ : 122
Breakout player : Harvey
Bust : Really whoever is the 5th starter, but based on expectations Dom Smith
Nats All-Star(s) : Meneses
Try your own!
A rare day indeed if it brings "glass half-empty" Harper into an optimistic frame.
ReplyDeleteI think we would all be pleased by a successful Joey (!), but why the dump on Dom Smith? Is it that he will be okay, but just not the "we stole from the Mets," "tradeable for goodies at the deadline" good?
Wins: 62
ReplyDeleteTeam MVP: Ruiz
Team Cy Young: Gore
Most improved: Robles
All-Star: Finnegan (easier to get your one rep as a competent RP than a DH)
Traded at deadline: Finnegan, Dickerson, Candelario, EdwardsJr
Is the Dom Smith hate because he took Soto's #22 and lots of fans will be wearing that jersey number and it will feel weird?
Wins: 54
ReplyDeleteTeam MVP: Ruiz
Team Cy Young: Josiah Gray
Most improved: no one
All-star: Finnegan (agree with ocw5000 -- much easier to get an RP on the all-star team than a DH).
Most disappointing: Robles (for the 8th year in a row)
Wins: 60
ReplyDeleteTeam MVP: Meneses
Team Cy: Gore
Most Improved: Abrams (though his defense today is killing that prediction)
All Star: Finnegan
Traded: Meneses, Dickerson, Harvey
Most disappointing: Garcia
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ReplyDeleteWins: 63
ReplyDeleteTeam MVP: Meneses
Team Cy: Gore
Most Improved: Gray
All Star: Meneses
Traded: Edwards, Jr, Dickerson
Most disappointing: Abrams
There goes that Finnegan All-Star appearance
ReplyDeleteThoughts on Corbin losing 20 games this year? He’ll certainly have at least 20 starts.
ReplyDeleteToo bad the FredNats aren’t on MASN instead.
If anyone can do it, Corbin can!
ReplyDeleteYup, sticking with my 43 win prediction.
ReplyDeleteCY: Gore
MVP: Ruiz
Most Improved: Robles
All-Star: Ruiz
Most Disappointing: Abrams
Traded at the deadline: everyone with a pulse that’s over 29.
As a fan, I can't make a prediction. Its too painful. Just hope that the expected doom does not descend upon us. Hope that:
ReplyDeleteCorbin will not lead the MLB in losses for the third straight year.
Abrams will not lead the league in errors.
Gray will not lead the league in homers allowed.
Corey Dickerson will not be a complete bust.
Martinez will not be fired mid-season.
Somebody will hit more than ten home runs.
One veteran player will play well enough to be traded for something at the deadline.
One minor league player will perform so well that they are brought up to help in the lost cause.
Prediction? Pain.
ReplyDeleteCan we revisit the question of whether Corbin’s decline could be related to the ban on sticky stuff?
ReplyDeleteCorbin 20 losses or Gray 50 home runs allowed - which is more likely?
ReplyDeleteA win! Keibert walks twice!
ReplyDelete@Anagramsci - definitely 20 losses for Corbin. 50 homers is nearly two per start...I'd be really surprised if he averaged that because there's going to be a lot more 1 homer starts than 3. Now if you had asked 40 homers...then i'd probably lean that direction
ReplyDeleteI agree 50 is a tall order in the 150 innings pitched Era. Gray would have to get considerably better before he'd be allowed to surrender 50 taters. Corbin, on the other hand, has ripened into the Platonic Idea of a 20 game loser.
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