Favorite in the AL? Behind Price, starting rotation terrible, Bullpen not much better, and question marks at both corner outfield and corner infield. Betting on JBJ and Castillo can severely backfire like the signing of Sandoval and Hanley. I see Hanley possibly hitting better this year (can’t do much worse than he did last year), and Sandoval looks worse physically than he did last year. Your comments are ridiculous.
divebomber108
Depends who ya ask. Some have MY Astros as favorites.
Come on Houston!!!
sn33
They were the “favorites” the past two years also. How did that work out? Oh that’s right the finished last both years The Royals were picked to have a losing record last year. How did that work out? Oh that’s right they won the World Series. And guess what “I’m not making this stuff up” I think I speak for everyone when I say that you should bet everything you have on them winning it all and going over 101.5 wins like you have so ridiculously stated.
sn33
Also the reason lines are where they are is based on bets made. The Royals and Blue Jays both have better odds to win the AL than “Your sox” (5/1 and 11/2) and the Astros are 6/1 tied with “your sox” I don’t expect you to understand how Vegas works because you don’t even understand how Baseball works.. Since the turn of the Century the Vegas favorite in the preseason has been correct just twice.
BrewerFan03
No one can ever say a certain team has “better odds” than another team. Nearly every team in the AL is evenly balanced, excluding maybe the A’s and the White Sox. You can’t predict this stuff like you can in other sports because baseball is an unpredictable game.
dane1990
Carson Smith is set to hit the DL, Papi is a shell of his former self, 2-5 starters are all fifth starters or bullpen arms. Shaw has looked great this spring but Sox are determined to make Panda and Hanley work. Rest of the bullpen is about average. Besides Betts, the outfield has potential to be average to garbage.
RickEO
Um yes. Favorites not in Al east but american league so who’s ridiculous?
MB923
You want to know who is ridiculous? It’s those who take Pecota and Zips and all these projection systems seriously
The same system that picks the Red Sox to finish with the best record in the AL picks the World Champion Royals to finish Last in the AL. This was one year after they picked the Sox to win the ALE in 2015 and the Royals to finish with 78 wins in 2015.
Samuel
I have outperformed the PERCOTA ratings the 3 years I’ve seen them.
Teams that play for their statistics wind up high in the preseason projections. Naturally. Teams that play to win wind up winning. Naturally.
dane1990
You can’t be favored to win the AL if you aren’t favored to win the AL East. That’s common sense. The troll level is getting ridiculous on this site now. Please point me to the site where logical serious fans are.
chichitog
Sox had a good off season. They managed to improve their team at some levels. Good enough to go from last to first??? I highly doubt it. Pedroia doesn’t look much of himself anymore. Big Papi is in his last season for a reason. Sandoval is a serious question mark on third, and behind Price in the starting rotation all I see is injure prone pitchers and attempts to come back… At the same time, Jays, Orioles, and Yankees seem to be moving on the right direction… Good luck with that!
MB923
The division is a complete toss up.
bringinit247
Man how have you gone so long without being discovered by your sox??? You could be the best manager in ALL of baseball! Maybe you should audition on Americas Got Talent as a baseball manager and see how you fare! Maybe then you’ll get the ownerships attention up there in Boston and be bored as their manager! They’d win the World Series of very year for 86 years! What a record!
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dane1990
Favorite in the AL? Behind Price, starting rotation terrible, Bullpen not much better, and question marks at both corner outfield and corner infield. Betting on JBJ and Castillo can severely backfire like the signing of Sandoval and Hanley. I see Hanley possibly hitting better this year (can’t do much worse than he did last year), and Sandoval looks worse physically than he did last year. Your comments are ridiculous.
divebomber108
Depends who ya ask. Some have MY Astros as favorites.
Come on Houston!!!
sn33
They were the “favorites” the past two years also. How did that work out? Oh that’s right the finished last both years The Royals were picked to have a losing record last year. How did that work out? Oh that’s right they won the World Series. And guess what “I’m not making this stuff up” I think I speak for everyone when I say that you should bet everything you have on them winning it all and going over 101.5 wins like you have so ridiculously stated.
sn33
Also the reason lines are where they are is based on bets made. The Royals and Blue Jays both have better odds to win the AL than “Your sox” (5/1 and 11/2) and the Astros are 6/1 tied with “your sox” I don’t expect you to understand how Vegas works because you don’t even understand how Baseball works.. Since the turn of the Century the Vegas favorite in the preseason has been correct just twice.
BrewerFan03
No one can ever say a certain team has “better odds” than another team. Nearly every team in the AL is evenly balanced, excluding maybe the A’s and the White Sox. You can’t predict this stuff like you can in other sports because baseball is an unpredictable game.
dane1990
Carson Smith is set to hit the DL, Papi is a shell of his former self, 2-5 starters are all fifth starters or bullpen arms. Shaw has looked great this spring but Sox are determined to make Panda and Hanley work. Rest of the bullpen is about average. Besides Betts, the outfield has potential to be average to garbage.
RickEO
Um yes. Favorites not in Al east but american league so who’s ridiculous?
MB923
You want to know who is ridiculous? It’s those who take Pecota and Zips and all these projection systems seriously
The same system that picks the Red Sox to finish with the best record in the AL picks the World Champion Royals to finish Last in the AL. This was one year after they picked the Sox to win the ALE in 2015 and the Royals to finish with 78 wins in 2015.
Samuel
I have outperformed the PERCOTA ratings the 3 years I’ve seen them.
Teams that play for their statistics wind up high in the preseason projections. Naturally. Teams that play to win wind up winning. Naturally.
dane1990
You can’t be favored to win the AL if you aren’t favored to win the AL East. That’s common sense. The troll level is getting ridiculous on this site now. Please point me to the site where logical serious fans are.
chichitog
Sox had a good off season. They managed to improve their team at some levels. Good enough to go from last to first??? I highly doubt it. Pedroia doesn’t look much of himself anymore. Big Papi is in his last season for a reason. Sandoval is a serious question mark on third, and behind Price in the starting rotation all I see is injure prone pitchers and attempts to come back… At the same time, Jays, Orioles, and Yankees seem to be moving on the right direction… Good luck with that!
MB923
The division is a complete toss up.
bringinit247
Man how have you gone so long without being discovered by your sox??? You could be the best manager in ALL of baseball! Maybe you should audition on Americas Got Talent as a baseball manager and see how you fare! Maybe then you’ll get the ownerships attention up there in Boston and be bored as their manager! They’d win the World Series of very year for 86 years! What a record!