Predictions...

by longhornscardinals on Aug 12, 2007 5:00 PM EDT

I posted it in the game thread and I thought it'd be a fun idea to see what peoples predictions are for the remainder of the season. Rules are: make 5, first four about individuals, fifth about the team. That's it. Here were mine...

1. Reyes will finish the year with a sub-5.00 ERA
2. Pujols will fail to hit 35 HR's, but will finish with a .320+ BA
3. Wainwright will finish with a sub-4.00 ERA
4. Ankiel will hit 12 HR's, and finish with a 3/1 K/BB ratio.
5. Cards miss the playoffs by a game.

Not too many stretches, really. Besides Ankiels K/BB ratio...

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K/BB Ratio

I would be thankful as HELL if he ends with a 3/1, son.

by mynameistyler on Aug 12, 2007 5:58 PM EDT reply actions

that's why i qualified it

and said that there weren't many stretches besides that.

by longhornscardinals on Aug 12, 2007 6:50 PM EDT up reply actions

Odddly enough

I predicted #1, #3 and #5 in the begining of the season.

The St Louis Cardinals- 11 time World Champs!

by Zubin on Aug 12, 2007 6:08 PM EDT reply actions

hmm....

Rolen will hit 10+ homers and will have 62+ rbis
Mark Mulder will return and will get 2+ wins
Yadi will end the year batting atleast .275+
Slick Rick will have a .300 avg, hit 10 homers, and have 25+ rbis

5.The Cards will make the playoffs and lose in the NLCS

23 homers 71 rbis, yeah, albert's having an off year

by PujolsFan4Life5 on Aug 12, 2007 8:00 PM EDT reply actions

I'll play

Wells will win 10 with an ERA under 5, and get signed to a long term deal
Enc and AK will not be on the playoff roster.
Famous Warrior will hit more home runs than JEd and Enc combined, and finish with an OPS over .850
Reyes will finish with more wins than Springer
Yankees in 6 (darn wild card teams)

"This is a ball club with issues." -Nats announcers (talking about the Cardinals)

by SleepyCA on Aug 12, 2007 11:32 PM EDT reply actions

I admire and applaud your optimism, sir

Re: Wells. Also, with the whole making it to the World Series thing.

by BTown Birds fan on Aug 12, 2007 11:57 PM EDT up reply actions

eh?

Who said anything about the world series?

Now the story of a wealthy family who lost everything, and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together...it's Arrested Development.

by Bowen on Aug 13, 2007 12:25 PM EDT up reply actions

In retrospect, I was probably reading more into

prediction #5 than SleepyCA meant, but I took his "Yankees in 6" to mean "Yankees beat the Cards in 6."

by BTown Birds fan on Aug 13, 2007 12:41 PM EDT up reply actions

you got it.

"This is a ball club with issues." -Nats announcers (talking about the Cardinals)

by SleepyCA on Aug 13, 2007 1:06 PM EDT up reply actions

My 5...

Pujols: .315/35/100
Rolen goes on a tear the next two weeks. (I just feel it...)
Yadier will have a higher OBP than Eck at the end of the year.
Mulder doesn't come back until next year to the bigs, gets to AAA then shuts it down.
Cards miss the playoffs by two. Edmonds retires, LaRussa comes back, Enc is traded, and if Izzy doesn't come back, Loop's the closer. Eck doesn't come back and Ryan starts at SS in '08.

Good pitching will beat good hitting any time, and vice versa. ~Bob Veale, 1966

by bukowski on Aug 13, 2007 12:06 AM EDT reply actions

hmm

Cardinals homerun leaders at season's end, in order: Pujols, Duncan, Ludwick, Ankiel, Rolen.
For better or worse, Brendan Ryan earns the 2008 shortstop job.
Mark Mulder performs poorly in rehab starts and doesn't rejoin the club in 2007.
Don't think Wells is going to hit 10 wins as predicted by SleepyCA, but I predict he pitches well enough to be offered a one year deal with a option for '09.
End of season NL Central: 1. Milwaukee, 2. St. Louis, 3. Chicago, 4. Houston, 5. Cincinnati, 6. Pittsburgh

by stl tyler on Aug 13, 2007 3:10 AM EDT reply actions

I'm an optomist so here goes

Pujols goes crazy and finishes with 38/115 and a MVP
Rick hits ten homers and starts in right the rest out
Hollywood goes wild in the postseason with five homers
Wainwright finishes with ERA under 3.5
Cards make playoffs lose in seven to Arizona in NLCS

Side note after his amazing postseason Jimmy Baseball retires, Tony stays, and we pick up Izzys option.

Save the Kipper don't make him go back out there.

by gibbyfan on Aug 13, 2007 1:46 PM EDT reply actions

My wild 5

Pujols finishes with 320/34/104
Rick Ankeil Finishes 300/15/40
Cards win NL Cetral by 2 games
Cards beat padres,mets both in rubber game of series.
Cards sweep Bosox in series. With Reyes and Wells throwing a combined 15 innings of no hit baseball

Tony and dunc leave, oquendo is manager and our payroll for next year is 114 million dollars because bill dewitt was arrested for being a tightwad and mark cuban buys the team.

"jizzy izzy makes my dizzy cuz he keeps the basepaths buzy"

by jcarro100 on Aug 13, 2007 9:54 PM EDT reply actions