Baseball Analysis

Earlier this week we brought you the NL Name Game and now it is the American League's turn. Tigers in the World Series? Big Papi the MVP? Adam Jones the ROY? Read more »

Following 14 consecutive Octobers, the Braves have missed the playoffs each of the past two seasons. But that small streak looks poised to end in 2008. Read more »

For the Twins, this will be a transitional season that won't embarrass them before they move to their beautiful new ballpark in 2010 with an improve chance at competing. Read more »

Since Atlanta has improved and Philadelphia has had some of their cockiness confirmed, the path to the playoffs will be decidedly more difficult for the Mets, even with Johan Santana. Read more »

When a team gives up more runs than it scores and still makes the playoffs, a lot of things must have gone right at opportune times. Read more »

The 2008 Major League Baseball season is underway and what better way to kick it off than to humbly offer predictions for the upcoming season and play the first ever RealGM Name Game. Read more »

The Devil Rays lost 96 games in 2007, but a 20-win improvement is certainly plausible, and an above .500 season seems inevitable. Read more »

While San Diego waited for Matt Holliday to touch home, the Padres remade many elements of their club and could be even better in 2008. Read more »

When a big market team that won the World Series just two seasons ago loses 90 games (and really should have lost more), you expect to see the scaffolding of a major reconstruction project surrounding the ballclub. Read more »

The Phillies are sort of like the Golden State Warriors of the National League; a very likeable offensive style without enough substance on defense (pitching) to be a real threat. Read more »

For a team that won 94 games and is talented as the Yankees and has upgraded their pitching staff via the development of their farm system, expectations are pleasantly low. Read more »

It has been 100 years since the Cubs won the World Series and even 18 years since they won it in 'Taking Care Of Business', and there appears to me an inevitability that it will happen with this current talented but somewhat ragtag core. Read more »

The ?Moneyball? era soberly and officially ended this winter and the elephantine (Connie Mack elephant pun intended) task of rebuilding one of sports recent success stories. Read more »

How quickly New England can throwaway 86 seasons of grief-stricken baseball and believe that winning the World Series is now the manifest destiny of the Boston Red Sox. Read more »

In the offseason, the Angels upgraded their roster both offensively and on the mound, but why are they not a vogue World Series pick? Read more »

Following 14 consecutive Octobers, the Braves have missed the playoffs each of the past two seasons. But that small streak looks poised to end in 2008. Read more »

With their young team one year older, will the Brewers make the playoffs for just the second time in their history and the first since 1982? Read more »

As the Nationals continue to collect more rescue projects, will it result in more wins on the field? Read more »

In the obviously not worth much, but for what it?s worth category, we examined the statistics during the first half of Spring Training and gleaned out the top performers, which include familiar names like Lastings Milledge, Josh Hamilton, Chris Burke and the not so familiar like Mike Morse and Darren O'Day. Read more »

Manny Ramirez and Andruw Jones as MVP's? Adam Jones and Justin Upton as ROY's? Red Sox repeat as World Champions by defeating the Dodgers? Read more »