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    Quote Originally Posted by thewupk View Post
    Braves will win 79 games. I predict they are squarely below .500 most of the year but make it up with a strong September in garbage time. Also giving myself a +5 window if Acuna and Albies go gangbusters.

    NL East Nats
    NL Central Cubs
    NL West Dodgers
    NL WC: Brewers over Mets

    NLDS: Cubs over Brewers, Dodgers over Nats
    NLCS: Dodgers over Cubs

    AL East: Yankees
    AL Central: Indians
    AL West: Astros
    AL WC: Angels over Red Sox

    ALDS: Astros over Angels. Yankees over Indians
    ALCS: Astros over Indians

    WS: Dodgers over Astros

    Seems like more than just Acuna and Albies went gangbuster so that win total was off

    Looks like I'll have 7 of the 10 playoff teams correct though

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    Quote Originally Posted by nsacpi View Post
    i believe you win the most negative nancy award...richly deserved i might add
    Negative or non homer? There is a big difference. Most everyone didn’t expect the Braves to be good or win the east. People are wrong all the time and I was in this case.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Heyward View Post
    Braves 83-79

    AL East: Yanks
    AL Central: Indians
    AL West: Astros
    NL East: Nats
    NL West: Dodgers
    NL Central: Cubs

    NL WC: Rockies over Brewers
    AL WC: Angels over Red Sox

    NLDS: Cubs over Rockies in 4, Dodgers over Nats in 5.
    NLCS: Cubs over Dodgers in 6.

    ALDS: Astros over Indians in 5, Yankees over Angels in 4.
    ALCS: Yankees over Astros in 6.

    WS: Cubs over Yankees in 7.
    8 of 10 playoff teams isnt bad, thought the Nats would eventually turn it on but never happened.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NinersSBChamps View Post
    Negative or non homer? There is a big difference. Most everyone didn’t expect the Braves to be good or win the east. People are wrong all the time and I was in this case.
    The difference is that you just go super contrarian to get a rise out of the board. Has nothing to do with homerism. Again... how did bashing all our prospects end up for you?

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    I didn’t get in this thread, but I think I had us pegged at 78 in another one. What did I miss? Acuña being an MVP-caliber player in the 2nd half, team defense (thanks Dansby, Ron Washington, and better analytics), Folty taking a step forward, Newcomb’s big first half, Neck Boogie, and Anibal the Canibal (I expected Ani to be good but not nearly the presence he ended up being).

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    Quote Originally Posted by CyYoung31
    Braves win 90 games and clinch the NL East after the Nats greatly underachieve again.

    NL East: Braves
    NL Central: Cubs
    NL West: Rockies
    NL WC: Brewers and Dodgers

    AL East: Red Sox
    AL Central: Indians
    AL West: Astros
    AL WC Yankees and A’s
    Nailed it again.

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    Quote Originally Posted by zbhargrove View Post
    The difference is that you just go super contrarian to get a rise out of the board. Has nothing to do with homerism. Again... how did bashing all our prospects end up for you?
    I don’t recall bashing a single prospect. I do remember saying the team needed real MLB players and not simply relying on unproven supremely overrated prospects by the folks here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NinersSBChamps View Post
    I don’t recall bashing a single prospect. I do remember saying the team needed real MLB players and not simply relying on unproven supremely overrated prospects by the folks here.
    Well you were super-duper wrong on that front. If not for the "prospects" like Folty, Acuna, Albies, Camargo, Swanson, Touki, Soroka, Sobotka, Minter, Newcomb, etc. this team would be nowhere this year. I never got the whole "we don't need prospects, we need real MLB players" line of thinking. Every single MLB player started out as a prospect. Sure, the attrition rate is high, but prospects turn into stars all the time and that is exactly what happened this year.

    Mr. Kim Jong Wrong.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BeanieAntics View Post
    Well you were super-duper wrong on that front. If not for the "prospects" like Folty, Acuna, Albies, Camargo, Swanson, Touki, Soroka, Sobotka, Minter, Newcomb, etc. this team would be nowhere this year. I never got the whole "we don't need prospects, we need real MLB players" line of thinking. Every single MLB player started out as a prospect. Sure, the attrition rate is high, but prospects turn into stars all the time and that is exactly what happened this year.

    Mr. Kim Jong Wrong.
    And a lot of so-called real major league players have bad seasons in any given year. Its ok to cite uncertainty about rookies. But there is a lot of uncertainty too about established players. Guys like Bartolo Colon.
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