I think the dbacks win the division with 90-94 wins and the Giants finish somewhere around .500 along with the Bums and the Rockies and the Padres lose about 100.

OMG I’M ORIGINAL!

hmmm about that.

Dodgers: 87 wins
Dbacks: 86 wins
Giants: 79 wins
Rockies: 76 wins
Padres: 62 wins

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That Padres prediction looks pretty good!

-Dodgers – Ridiculously best team in the majors
-Giants – 2nd Best team in the NL but still 7+ back of the Dodgers

Anybody? Anybody? Beuller?

I’m pretty dumbfounded at this point. I definitely expected this team to be between 5-10 games under .500 for most of the season. It seems to be mostly smoke mirrors, with an unhittable Lincecum, a great Matt Cain, and a pretty good bullpen thrown in.

I can’t bring myself to go all Lars and stick to a sub 80 wins prediction, but I will say a playoff appearance is not what I’m expecting this season. It has laid a foundation of lofty hopes for next season, certainly.

I never posted my predictions (I think) but I had them at about 75-87. I didn’t think they would smell .500.

Even Xei had his Dodgers at 86 wins. They’ve had too many things go right for them this year, not the least of which was Juan Pierre super sub. I had the Giants at .500 which I felt was optimistic at the time….Wooo Hoooo to having even more optimism mid season!

I didn’t see my post in that particular thread, but I think I predicted the Giants to go 88-74, because I expected them to hang around .500, and then I expected Sabean to do something at the deadline to improve the team. A couple of people asked me what I was drinking, but I’m always optimistic at the start of the baseball season. However, I thought the Dbacks and Dodgers would be really good so I was pretty sure that that record would only get us third place.

I, too, didn’t foresee the collapse of the Diamondbacks (I had them winning the West – ouch). But I’m pretty happy with the rest of my predictions, and I’ll stand by my prediction of 83 wins for the Giants. We’ve been pretty lucky so far, particularly in avoiding injuries. I dont’ see Randy Johnson going 8-5 in the second half, Zito will still be Zito, and who knows with Sadowski?

That being said, I’m happy with where the Giants are in their development process.

I’m disappointed in the Rockies, who I had as one game ahead of us. I expected their pitching to solidify this year (hello, Jason Marquis!) while their hitting stayed at a high level. Oh well.

I am sticking to 79 wins.

but somewhere I predicted 76-86 and a third place finish for the Giants behind the DBacks and the Dodgers.

I’m not feeling too good about that prediction at the moment, especially the DBacks winning the division.

not pretty, in other words, ugly.
LA- 88
Dbacks- 86
Giants- 75
Rockies-72
Pads-60

Since they are now on pace for 88, booyah!

However, I also had them as the NL West winner but who would have thought those Dildodgers would be where they are now while Manny was out for 50 games! If Giants are playing way over their head now, LA is probably playing in the solar space. D-backs are utter disappointments and Rockies are a nice surprise so far – Padres was as expected.

As for the second half, keep playing well at home (.666 now) and .500 ball on the road will send these G-men into the p-word.

I agreed with Cookyman’s 79 wins. I blame my pessimism on the consumption of too much pie.

I could have predicted that my predictive powers suck. Even the Padres aren’t quite as bad as I expected them to be.

I pegged the Giants for 79 wins, and I’m not going to jinx anything by changing that now. They do have two very tough road trips coming up after the ASG (10-game through Pittsburgh, Atlanta and Colorado in July; 11-game at New York, Cincinnati and Colorado in August) but they played well on the road against the Brewers and Cardinals, so I don’t know what to think.

Overall, really happy with the way the Giants have played, but disappointed that Freddy Lewis and Dirty Sanchez haven’t turned into the players I hoped/thought they would. :(

But my mantra in spring was that the Giants had a real shot at .500. At the time, that was meant to be optimistic, but now I’m really afraid they’ll fall back to .500 and prove me right!

Really, the question should have been, HOW MANY MVP AWARDS WILL PANDA WIN THIS YEAR? I’m going for 12.

And Kevin Frandsen

I too picked giants to win 79. I’m glad they’ve overperformed err I mean improved!
Also the rox are probably going to be near .500
The only thing I might be right on is the padres.