Yeah, that's right, the Philadelphia Phillies will be taking home the commisioner's trophy this year!
With arguably the best rotation in the history of baseball with the four aces, not to mention this years breakout star Vance Worley who's a part of the lockdown bullpen going into the postseason along with Blanton, Lidge, Madson and Bastardo, they have by far the best pitching staff in baseball, NOBODY is gonna be hitting them. Granted, their bats haven't exactly been on fire and they've been in a horrible tailspin losing the last eight out of ten games but i'd attribute that more to trying to rest for the playoffs(I refuse to jump on the bashing bandwagon like the rest of the negative fucking Philly fans.) As long as their declining but still above average offense wakes up for the postseason this year is a lock.
I got em over the Cardinals in four, and I think we'll be up against the Brewers in the NLCS which will be like a repeat of the 08' season. No idea how the AL will end up but if I had to guess i'd say the same as last year with the Rangers beating out the Yankees to go to the World Series. So i'd say this year will be Phillies vs. Rangers in the World Series with the Phils coming out on top.
Apparently the handicappers agree:
St Louis- +195 Arizona- +117 Detroit- +115 Tampa Bay- +150
Philadelphia- -215 Milwaukee- -127 N.Y. Yankees- -122 Texas- -160 loss
Any playoff predictions?