Article:2009 Major League Baseball Predictions

Hey everybody, this is going to be short and sweet (unlike my typical monstrous previews) because I have to devote most of my blogging time to the site that's actually paying me, but I thought I should keep the streak going and record my surely-wrong projected MLB standings for the 4th straight year. As always, these were generated using projected stats for every player, so it's not like I'm biased against any team or anything (Die, Yankees, Die!!!)... This means if your fave team looks bad, it's the cold hard numbers talking and you can feel free to write it off as such -- sometimes they get it right, sometimes they get it wrong, and there's always something to disagree with. Anyway, here are the projections:

ALDS: Yankees def. Indians Red Sox def. Angels ALCS: Yankees def. Red Sox

NLDS: Cubs def. Phillies Mets def. Dodgers NLCS: Cubs def. Mets

World Series: Cubs def. Yankees

NL MVP: Manny Ramirez, Dodgers NL Cy Young: Johan Santana, Mets NL Rookie: Cameron Maybin, Marlins

AL MVP: Grady Sizemore, Indians AL Cy Young: C.C. Sabathia, Yankees Al Rookie: Matt Wieters, Orioles