amazinavenue.com - 2/20/2008
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( promoted from diaries --eric ) Baseball Prospectus' projected standings for 2008 are out (based on PECOTA). The NL East looks like this: New York 96-66 Atlanta 86-76 Philadelphia 84-78 Florida 76-86 Washington 72-90 So BP expects the Mets to have the best record in the NL and the biggest margin of victory in the NL. For those of you that care, Atlanta wouldn't even win the wild card under ...
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New York Mets Fan Blog —
... : "Nobody said anything to me, but it's because of what happened last year," Reyes said. "That's why I'm taking this year more seriously. In 2006, everybody loved (it) , but now it's different. I'm going to enjoy the game, but I'm not going to do the handshakes with the guys. I don't want people to talk about that. I just want to play baseball. I want to take care of business on the field." There's Baseball Prospectus (via Amazin' Avenue) projecting the Mets to finish 2008 at 96-66 , 10 games better than 2nd place Atlanta. There's Beltran declaring the Mets the "Team to Beat." ...
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Spring training is under way, which means its 2008 projections season, too. Fangraphs has the CHONE and Marcel projections for individual players all up and sortable and BP's released their team projections based on Nate Silver's PECOTA system. As most any reasonable person with a modicum of common season could have also predicted, the Mets are heavy favorites to win the NL East. 10 wins ahead of the Bravos and 12 in front of the Phillzies. Of course, dim-witted, unattractive Phillies bloggers may still try to convince you that the Mets are only slight favorites, but you'd be better off ignoring anything stated by Phillie ...
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DC: Yankees, Tigers, Angels WC: White Sox DC: Mets, Cubs, Dodgers WC: Cardinals Matsuzaka: 3.75 era, 16 wins, pretty good season, gets lit up a couple times and is dominant more in the first half, Pavano: wins around 15 games low four era, ...
