March 25, 201610 yr Thought this would be the right place to list all the picks the media, the national magazines and the baseball networks are making for the Sox for 2017. First off is Sports Illustrated (and it's not a happy one.) They have the Sox finishing 4th in the division with only a single game improvement to 77-85 from the final 2016 record. They do pick Chris Sale to win the A.L. Cy Young and the 'scout's take' section on the Sox is very positive (which somewhat makes their Sox pick puzzling...) By the way they have Houston beating the Cubs in the World Series. Mark
March 25, 201610 yr QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ Mar 25, 2016 -> 10:41 PM) Thought this would be the right place to list all the picks the media, the national magazines and the baseball networks are making for the Sox for 2017. First off is Sports Illustrated (and it's not a happy one.) They have the Sox finishing 4th in the division with only a single game improvement to 77-85 from the final 2016 record. They do pick Chris Sale to win the A.L. Cy Young and the 'scout's take' section on the Sox is very positive (which somewhat makes their Sox pick puzzling...) By the way they have Houston beating the Cubs in the World Series. Mark no offense, but didn't someone posted another one like this before the al fiasco??? if not, i like this idea and at least an updated version of this. btw, what is pissing me off is the WS prediction on both the al and the nl. if that nl team is the northsiders, i will be royally pissed.
March 25, 201610 yr USA Today picked the Sox to be in first before Spring Training (so before the Jackson addition and the LaRoche saga): http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2...otals/80389576/ Clay Davenport (who founded Baseball Prospectus) generated these predictions on 3/13, which hilariously have the Royals as the worst team in the AL at 71-91 (he also has the Sox in first): http://claydavenport.com/projections/PROJHOME.shtml I've seen a lot of negative ones for the White Sox too. Most projections or predictions generally seem to have them in first or last. Appears that nobody really knows what to do with the AL Central.
March 26, 201610 yr Yeah but the magazine USA Today published had them finishing 5th. Still can understand the love affair with the indians
March 26, 201610 yr QUOTE (Chris Sale @ Mar 25, 2016 -> 05:39 PM) USA Today picked the Sox to be in first before Spring Training (so before the Jackson addition and the LaRoche saga): http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2...otals/80389576/ Clay Davenport (who founded Baseball Prospectus) generated these predictions on 3/13, which hilariously have the Royals as the worst team in the AL at 71-91 (he also has the Sox in first): http://claydavenport.com/projections/PROJHOME.shtml I've seen a lot of negative ones for the White Sox too. Most projections or predictions generally seem to have them in first or last. Appears that nobody really knows what to do with the AL Central. Sox have had great success using Davenport projections in recent Cuban memory...
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