Have some fun with this, make your predictions for the 2011 season. We will score this at the end of the season to see who is the best prognosticator. The best way to do this is to cut-and-paste the below text into your own post and add your predictions. Predictions ae due by Friday, April 1 at 4:00 PM ET. Feel free to edit until then, at which point this thread will be locked.
Past Prognosticators of the Year
2010: ThSneak
Past Prognosticators of the Year
2010: ThSneak
2009: amfox1
2008: wskeleton76
2007: amfox1
MLB
1. World Series Winner/Loser
2. MVP (AL/NL)
3. Cy Young (AL/NL)
4. ROY (AL/NL)
5. Which two Red Sox or ex-Red Sox players/prospects will get the most MVP vote points in 2011? Remember, MVP voters vote for the top 10 in each league, 14 points for first place, nine for second, eight for third and on down to one for 10th. (don't need to pick the correct order of the two)
Red Sox
6. Red Sox Wins - Yankees Wins - Rays Wins - Blue Jays Wins
7. Red Sox AVG leader - OPS leader - HR leader - RBI leader (min 400 PAs for AVG/OPS)
8. What two pitchers start the most games besides Lester, Lackey, Buchholz, Beckett, and Matsuzaka? How many games will Lester win? Matsuzaka?
2008: wskeleton76
2007: amfox1
MLB
1. World Series Winner/Loser
2. MVP (AL/NL)
3. Cy Young (AL/NL)
4. ROY (AL/NL)
5. Which two Red Sox or ex-Red Sox players/prospects will get the most MVP vote points in 2011? Remember, MVP voters vote for the top 10 in each league, 14 points for first place, nine for second, eight for third and on down to one for 10th. (don't need to pick the correct order of the two)
Red Sox
6. Red Sox Wins - Yankees Wins - Rays Wins - Blue Jays Wins
7. Red Sox AVG leader - OPS leader - HR leader - RBI leader (min 400 PAs for AVG/OPS)
8. What two pitchers start the most games besides Lester, Lackey, Buchholz, Beckett, and Matsuzaka? How many games will Lester win? Matsuzaka?
9. What four pitchers (in the system as of March 24) will have the most relief appearances after Papelbon, Bard, Jenks, and Wheeler?
10. First four players (in the system as of March 24) to be added to the 25-man roster on or after April 15 (players coming off the DL do not count).
Organization - minor league only stats predictions are cumulative (only for players in the system as of March 24)
11. Top 4 pitchers: Wins
12. Top 4 pitchers: Saves
13. Top 4 pitchers: Strikeouts
14. Top 4 hitters: HRs
15. Top 4 hitters: OPS (min 200 PAs)
16. Top 4 hitters: SBs
Misc
17. First 4 players to earn a permanent promotion after the season starts (from any level to any level - not just to Boston - but not including rehab re-assignments or call-ups from XST)
18. Pick 4 players that will be called up to the Sox after September 1. (Does not count if player is called up earlier and remained on roster through September - does count if player is called up earlier, sent back down, and then called back up again after September 1). While there may be more than 4 called up, you can only pick 4 here.
19. Who will be voted the Offensive POY as voted by the SP Community? Pitcher of the Year?
20. Who will be the Breakout POY as voted by the SP Community? Comeback POY?
21. Pick two players the Red Sox will select in the 2011 draft (in any round).
22. How many of the top 60 prospects will be traded between Opening Day and September 1? Who will be the highest-rated prospect to be traded this season?
23. Which four prospects from the SoxProspects Top 60 will make the biggest jump up in the rankings?
24. Which two affiliates will have the best record? Which two affiliates will have the worst record?
25. Who will be the top four prospects in the SoxProspects season-end rankings? (don't need to pick exact order for the points)
SCORING Fairly easy, 4 points per answer. You can get fractions of the 4 points for partially correct answers. Total of 100 possible points.
For Questions 6 & 8, you get the point for being within 2 wins either way.
Rankings for question #22 based on SoxProspects 2011 season-start rankings (as of March 24, may be slighly tweaked by April 1).
Rankings for question #23 based on SoxProspects 2011 season-start rankings and season-end rakings (~Sep 20).
10. First four players (in the system as of March 24) to be added to the 25-man roster on or after April 15 (players coming off the DL do not count).
Organization - minor league only stats predictions are cumulative (only for players in the system as of March 24)
11. Top 4 pitchers: Wins
12. Top 4 pitchers: Saves
13. Top 4 pitchers: Strikeouts
14. Top 4 hitters: HRs
15. Top 4 hitters: OPS (min 200 PAs)
16. Top 4 hitters: SBs
Misc
17. First 4 players to earn a permanent promotion after the season starts (from any level to any level - not just to Boston - but not including rehab re-assignments or call-ups from XST)
18. Pick 4 players that will be called up to the Sox after September 1. (Does not count if player is called up earlier and remained on roster through September - does count if player is called up earlier, sent back down, and then called back up again after September 1). While there may be more than 4 called up, you can only pick 4 here.
19. Who will be voted the Offensive POY as voted by the SP Community? Pitcher of the Year?
20. Who will be the Breakout POY as voted by the SP Community? Comeback POY?
21. Pick two players the Red Sox will select in the 2011 draft (in any round).
22. How many of the top 60 prospects will be traded between Opening Day and September 1? Who will be the highest-rated prospect to be traded this season?
23. Which four prospects from the SoxProspects Top 60 will make the biggest jump up in the rankings?
24. Which two affiliates will have the best record? Which two affiliates will have the worst record?
25. Who will be the top four prospects in the SoxProspects season-end rankings? (don't need to pick exact order for the points)
SCORING Fairly easy, 4 points per answer. You can get fractions of the 4 points for partially correct answers. Total of 100 possible points.
For Questions 6 & 8, you get the point for being within 2 wins either way.
Rankings for question #22 based on SoxProspects 2011 season-start rankings (as of March 24, may be slighly tweaked by April 1).
Rankings for question #23 based on SoxProspects 2011 season-start rankings and season-end rakings (~Sep 20).