Baseball is here!

Yes, I know baseball has been in full swing for months! I was hoping to get this out earlier, but it never happened! So you can call me a cheat or whatever you want, but all of these predictions were formulated before the season! So here is the first of my division by division coverage of the MLB!

AL East - Once again this will be one heck of a division. There are so many great teams, there will defiantly be two teams coming out of this division in October.

1. Boston Red Sox – With plenty of off season signings, the Sox will be tops this year. Good pitching and hitting will be around the entire year. Watch for them to lead the race for most of the year if not all of it.

2. New York Yankees – In any other division they would be a division champion. Derick Jeter and the older Yankees won’t be able to hold off the Sox. They will also lose some games to the up and coming Jays, Rays, and O’s. The Yankees will be contenders all throughout the season.

3. Tampa Bay Rays – They lost key players and replaced them with Johnny Damon but they are still a major force in the baseball world. With so many young players, they will outpace the Yankees for a bit but will fall late in the season.

4. Baltimore Orioles – With new manager Buck Showalter, the O’s are a new team. It showed in the later parts of the season. Still, it is the AL East. The Orioles will get a few wins this season, but will still be trailing the major teams by quite a few games.

5. Toronto Jays- They would be a threat in any other division. They just don’t have the firepower on either side of the ball to hang with the big dogs in the East.