Opening day is finally here, and by the time this posts I will probably be on my way to the North Shore. I’m gonna have a bit of fun with this one, making a few predictions, roughly in chronological order for the 2010 MLB season.
Before I get into it, I thought it was appropriate to throw out links to all the previous 2010 season preview posts.
Written back in Janury: Prospects part 1 & part 2
Its probably useless at this point, but for the sake of completeness, here is my “very brief” spring training preview
Probably my favorite of the series, Expectations
And finally, the Pitching & Defense and Offense previews
OK, let’s get to the predictions
April 5th, Today: The Pirates will start the year off 1-0, getting to Vicente Padilla early and often and the bullpen holds on for a 7-5 victory.
April 28th: The Pirates lose the last of a 3 game sweep in Milwaukee, falling to 10-11 and below .500 for good.
June 3rd: An off day. Aki Iwamura is traded for a mid-level pitching prospect, clearing the way for Andy LaRoche, off to a hot start, to move to second base and Pedro Alvarez to make his big league debut at home the next day against San Francisco. Alvarez finishes the season with 22 homers.
June 7th: The Pirates select phenom Bryce Harper second overall in Major League Baseball’s first year player draft.
July 13th: Andrew McCutchen is the Pirates lone All-Star, as the team crawls into the break 10 games under .500.
July 20th: Brad Lincoln makes his Pirates debut by giving the team their first victory of the season against Milwaukee.
July 31st: For the first time in god knows how long, the Pirates do not make a major deadline deal.
October 3rd: The Pirates beat the Florida Marline to end the season with 70 wins, good for last in the NL Central, 4 games behind 5th place Houston. Jose Tabata spends the entire year at AAA, and is not called up as many expected when the season began.
October 4th: In a one game playoff, Aroldis Chapman beats Adam Wainright giving the Reds the NL Central crown.
November 4th: AL wildcard Tampa Bay beats NL West champion Colorado to win the world series in 7 games.
Pirates MVP: Andrew McCutchen
Pirates ROY: Pedro Alvarez
Pirates “Cy Young”: Charlie Morton
NL Cy Young: Roy Halladay
NL ROY: Aroldis Chapman
NL MVP: Albert Pujols
AL Cy Young: Felix Hernandez
AL ROY: Austin Jackson
AL MVP: Evan Longoria
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