Forgive us - we can’t get excited about baseball yet. Even though the season begins in a week, the NBA regular season is actually thrilling, and we remain consumed by the NCAA tournament. Still, that doesn’t prevent us from making dimestorm predictions for the upcoming season! We’ll do one of these each day, wrapping up Monday with the NL West, postseason projections, and a small surprise you hopefully will enjoy. The little * denotes a playoff projection. Let us begin with the division that you could have put in order back in December. Seriously - this might be the most predictable division of all the three major sports.
* 1. Boston Red Sox. Even with Schilling out for a couple months (sweet, more blogging!), and Beckett banged up to start this season, this is the deepest rotation in the AL and the Red Sox probably have the best closer in baseball. Barring a slew of significant injuries, we’d be stunned if this team didn’t win 90 games.