White Sox Predictions

In an effort to not be so bias towards Detroit teams, and with the upcoming White Sox-Tigers series coming up I asked a good friend of mine who happens to be a White Sox fan to give me some predictions of a few hitters and batters and the overall team.

This time, you people can tell him how wrong he is instead of me. So here it is:

	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L
1	Mark Buehrle	G	W	L	IP	H	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2		31.00	15.00	8.00	203.00	205.00	22.00	43.00	120.00	3.40	1.20
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4	Javier Vazquez	G	W	L	IP	H	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
5		32.00	17.00	9.00	212.00	195.00	25.00	45.00	220.00	3.30	1.12
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7	Bobby Jenks	G	W	L	IP	SV	H	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
8		65.00	5.00	2.00	67.00	42.00	50.00	3.00	15.00	66.00	2.80	1.00
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10	Nick Swisher	AB	HR	RBI	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
11		530	37	105	0.280	0.400	0.530	0.930
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13	Paul Konerko	AB	HR	RBI	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
14		540	35	100	0.290	0.380	0.520	0.900
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16	Jim Thome	AB	HR	RBI	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
17		440	37	90	0.285	0.420	0.575	0.995
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19	Jermaine Dye	AB	HR	RBI	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
20		520	33	95	0.285	0.360	0.530	0.890
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22	CWS	W	L
23		86	76
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25	Place in AL Central	Second
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27	Playoffs	Wildcard
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29	These predictions may seem optimistic, but I figured that I have to keep hope alive for a good season. It was ridiculous how bad the team played in 2007, probably career lows for several players, under achieving at the least. The Sox will rebound this year and as long as a few cards fall our way and the team stays relatively healthy we should have a shot at the Wildcard.

Seems like a very optimistic prediction, but certainly very possible. The White Sox are not very far removed from 2006 when they won 90 games and their big hitters had very respectable offensive years. You may also think that many of the HR numbers are high, but you have to remember that U.S. Cellular Field (it will always be Comiskey to me) is very small and prone to give up a lot of home runs.

Another note, I do not think 86 wins is good enough to make the wild card in the AL, especially given the dominance of the AL over the NL in interleague play. 86 wins is probably good enough for 3rd in the Central and 2rd or 3th in the Wild Card.

Well there you have it, reactions?