Baseball is here: 2008 Predictions

Why spend time reading the predictions of so-called "baseball experts" when you can get equally unreliable ones right here on this site? Though it wasn't rocket science to pick Boston last season, most experts will swing and miss with at least a third of the league's teams' fates. That said, here are my undoubted whiffs at what the 2008 Major League Baseball season will hold.

Predicted American League Standings:

AL East
1) Boston
2) New York*
3) Toronto
4) Tampa Bay
5) Baltimore

AL Central
1) Detroit
2) Cleveland
3) Chicago
4) Kansas City
5) Minnesota

AL West
1) Seattle
2) Los Angeles
3) Texas
4) Oakland


Playoffs:
ALDS -- Seattle over Boston; Detroit over New York
ALCS -- Detroit over Seattle

Predicted National League Standings (*-Denotes Wild Card team)

NL East
1) New York
2) Philadelphia
3) Atlanta
4) Washington
5) Florida

NL Central
1) Milwaukee
2) Chicago*
3) Houston
4) St. Louis
5) Cincinnati
6) Pittsburgh

NL West
1) Arizona
2) Los Angeles
3) Colorado
4) San Diego
5) San Francisco

Playoffs:
NLDS -- New York over Chicago; Arizona over Milwaukee
NLCS -- Arizona over New York

World Series:
Detroit over Arizona, 4 games to 2