The official 2012 Call Your Shot Thread (outrageous predictions)

[gcstomp]

1- Will be revealed that 8 players are older than they claimed, including Albert Pujols.

2-On bright side, Pujols wins MVP in convincing fashion with a near triple crown season, which on top of his very active role in community projects, and near sellout of season tickets, team + fans have not a bad word to say about him or his contract. News folks try to stir pot on this but it falls flat.

3- Power down all across baseball. Stanton leads NL with a modest 41. Bautista leads AL with 43, nipping Pujols on last day of season who has 42.

4- Dunn comes to an agreement with pale hose regarding remainder of contract, retires mid season, as he cant get even improve on last years shockingly weak numbers.

5- Harper arrives. Clouds part. Angels sing, trumpets blare. Nationals become America's team.

[Bob Kohm]

Jordan Zimmerman steals Stephen Strasburg's thunder and wins NL Cy Young

[TS Garp]

I'll play: Delmon Young goes .290-34-115-90.

[Funkley]

Verlander falls just short of 30, winning 29
Morneau stays healthy with DHing and spot rests, goes .290/31/105
Dee Gordon steals 100
Votto wins the NL triple crown .361/52/145
Fielder struggles in the AL, .260/26/84
Chris Parmelee wins ALROY .285/27/79

[cool hand]

brandon inge hits .275/21/81 and wins a gold glove at 2B.
jacoby ellsbury knocks 33 round trippers, just to spite critics.
jesus montero throws out 30% of would be thieves.
matt moore K's 246 - loses CY young votes to teammate david price (2.23ERA), award goes to verlander (27 Ws).
nelson cruz - 572 ab, 37 hr.
mariano rivera posts nearly human 2.79 ERA
justin smoak's thumb is fine all season - .289/28/95

[Sour Masher]

I know it is insanely early to be bringing this up, but watching Emilio and the Marlins these first few games, I now realize that my 50 steals prediction for Emilio was not bold enough, so I'll bump it to 70, to make it as crazy as my other prediciton and more in keeping with this thread.

I know super early trends rarely mean much, but I really think he has a shot to steal 50. He is so damn fast (anyone see him beat out that routine grounder up the 1b line for a single Saturday?), and Guillen seems to green light him whenever he is on base, even with Hanley and Giancarlo hitting behind him.

Hitters:

Matt Kemp does as he predicted and goes 50/50 and wins the MVP
He edges out Braun, who goes 40/40
Mike Napoli hits 40 homers
Bonifacio steals 50
Jed Lowrie hits .300

Pitchers:

Kershaw Ks 300
Ian Kennedy makes it b2b 21 win seasons
Scott Baker finally gets 200 IP+ and 200K+
Heath Bell leads the NL with 48 saves
Joe Nathan leads the AL with 47 saves

[swampdragon]

these are great in hindsight - thank you gentlemen for your brazeness

[DJBeasties]

Bobby Valentine won't say anything stupid.

Darn.

[Moonlight J]

Finally my annual prediction of Miguel Cabrera winning the Triple Crown just might come true!

He's currently 1st in RBI, 1st in BA, and 2nd in HR. He's only 1 behind Josh Hamilton for the HR lead.

Cabrera has to be a stone cold lock for the AL MVP at this point, no? What an amazing season the guy has had. He's looking at the third season in a row with an OPS+ of 170 or higher. That's awesome.

No, because players have to play defense and run bases - 2 things Cabera is awful at.

Trout is easily the best player in the league.

[Don Quixote]

Dusty Baker's explanations make sense
Pittsburgh wins 88 games
Cubs finish over .500
Yankees don't win the World Series, but Hank Steinbrenner says he's satisfied with their season
Yankee and Red Sox fans learn to love each other, ushering in the Age of Aquarius with harmony and understanding, sympathy and trust abounding
Nick Johnson makes an MLB roster and stays healthy all year

#s 1, 2, 3, and 6 proved to be truly outrageous. #4 remains to be seen. #5 is as impossible as ever.

[Grinch]

Not sure this is as outrageous as when I first thought of it. (In Beantown it would be blasphemous)

Red Sox come in 4th place, only ahead of Baltimore.

well, I was half right.......

[Mithrandir]

I forgot to predict that Tulo and Ellsbury (the glass pansy twins) would have the following numbers COMBINED:

73 runs
12 HR
53 RBI
16 SB

[Fresno Bob]

Giants beat the rangers again in the world series

close!

[Gregg]

Of course, I was so laughably wrong with all my other predictions that I shouldn't be too proud....

So are you starting one for 2013?

[mgwiz22]

Placido Polanco homered twice yeaterday. He will lead the league in homers and Rbi's. You can't get more outrageous than that.