While the Seattle Mariners and Oakland Athletics opened the season last week in Japan, that apparently didn’t count tonight is opening night and tomorrow is opening day (and for that, so is Friday). Regardless, the first pitch to be thrown in North America is one hour away and therefore the staff at Walkoff Woodward will reluctantly release their ultimate predictions for the 2012 season.

Over/Under

Using the win/loss over/unders posted at Vegas Watch.

Team	Wins	Josh	Grey	Erin	Packey
PHI	95.5	Under	Under	Under	Under
TEX	94.0	Over	Over	Under	Push
DET	94.0	Under	Over	Over	Under
NYY	93.0	Over	Over	Over	Over
LAA	89.5	Over	Under	Over	Over
TBR	87.5	Over	Over	Over	Over
BOS	87.5	Under	Over	Over	Under
SFG	87.5	Over	Under	Under	Under
STL	87.0	Under	Under	Under	Under
CIN	87.0	Over	Over	Under	Over
ATL	85.5	Over	Over	Over	Over
ARI	84.5	Over	Over	Under	Under
MIA	82.5	Under	Over	Over	Under
MIL	81.5	Over	Over	Over	Over
LAD	81.5	Over	Under	Under	Over
TOR	81.5	Over	Over	Under	Over
COL	81.5	Under	Under	Over	Under
WSN	81.0	Over	Under	Over	Over
KCR	78.5	Over	Over	Over	Over
CHW	77.5	Under	Under	Under	Under
CLE	75.5	Over	Over	Over	Over
NYM	74.5	Under	Under	Under	Under
MIN	74.0	Under	Under	Under	Under
CHC	73.5	Under	Over	Under	Over
OAK	73.0	Over	Under	Under	Push
PIT	73.0	Under	Under	Under	Over
SEA	72.5	Over	Under	Over	Over
BAL	71.0	Under	Under	Under	Over
SDP	70.5	Over	Over	Under	Under
HOU	62.5	Over	Under	Under	Under

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Division Finishes

Let’s start with the National League:

NL East	Josh	Grey	Erin	Packey
1	Philadelphia	Philadelphia	Philadelphia	Philadelphia
2	Atlanta*	Atlanta*	Miami*	Miami*
3	Washington	Miami	Atlanta	Washington
4	Miami	Washington	Washington	Atlanta
5	New York	New York	New York	New York
NL Central	Josh	Grey	Erin	Packey
1	Cincinnati	Cincinnati	Milwaukee	Cincinnati
2	St. Louis	St. Louis*	Cincinnati	Milwaukee*
3	Milwaukee	Milwaukee	St. Louis	St. Louis
4	Pittsburg	Chicago	Chicago	Pittsburg
5	Chicago	Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh	Chicago
6	Houston	Houston	Houston	Houston
NL West	Josh	Grey	Erin	Packey
1	San Fran*	Arizona	San Fran	Los Angeles
2	Los Angeles	San Fran	Arizona*	Arizona
3	Colorado	Los Angeles	Los Angeles	San Fran
4	Arizona	Colorado	Colorado	Colorado
5	San Diego	San Diego	San Diego	San Diego

*Wild Card Teams

Every one of us trusts Philadelphia to win the NL East, even with the injury and age concerns. Grey and myself believe Atlanta is good enough to make the playoffs while Packey and Erin buy into the Miami heat hype. Shockingly, we all felt that Washington is still not a playoff contender, and New York is simply a joke.

The Reds and their new Mega Millions winner, Joey Votto, are a pretty popular pick amongst us, as Erin is the only one who doesn’t chose them for the division winner. Packey has the Brewers in as a Wild Card, so according to our collective crystal ball, the St. Louis Cardinals aren’t going to have a chance to defend their World Series title. Poor Houston. They should move to the AL West or something.

The greatest discourse is found in the NL West as San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Arizona are all division winners, and Arizona picks up a Wild Card birth thanks to Erin.

Now, the American League:

AL East	Josh	Grey	Erin	Packey
1	New York	New York	New York	New York
2	Toronto*	Boston*	Tampa*	Tampa*
3	Tampa*	Tampa	Boston	Toronto
4	Boston	Toronto	Toronto	Boston
5	Baltimore	Baltimore	Baltimore	Baltimore
AL Central	Josh	Grey	Erin	Packey
1	Detroit	Detroit	Detroit	Detroit
2	Kan. City	Kan. City	Cleveland	Cleveland
3	Cleveland	Cleveland	Kan. City	Kan. City
4	Chicago	Chicago	Chicago	Chicago
5	Minnesota	Minnesota	Minnesota	Minnesota
AL West	Josh	Grey	Erin	Packey
1	L.A.	Texas	L.A.	Texas
2	Texas	L.A.*	Texas*	L.A.*
3	Oakland	Seattle	Seattle	Oakland
4	Seattle	Oakland	Oakland	Seattle

*Wild Card Teams

Just like the NL East, we all feel the AL East division title comes from one team, and that’s the New York Yankees. We all feel the beasts from the east have at least one Wild Card winner, and I actually have two.

We are all homers, horrible horrible Prince Semien Fielder homers. How dare we all pick the Tigers to win the central and have no Wild Card winner come from the Royals or Indians. Oh, and there’s some serious Twins hate here. It’s well deserved.

The AL West is obviously a two team competition and I am the only one who doesn’t have both teams moving onto the playoffs as I give no respect to the two time World Series loser Texas Rangers.

World Series

	Josh		Grey		Erin		Packey
	AL	NL	AL	NL	AL	NL	AL	NL
Pennant	Rays	Giants	Rangers	Reds	Angels	Phillies	Yankees	Phillies
Winner	Giants		Rangers		Angels		Yankees

There’s a wide gap here as we all have different pennant winners, save for Packey and Erin who both like the Phillies to attempt to return to their 2008 form. However, what’s with the Tiger hate, guys?

Awards

	Josh		Grey		Erin		Packey
	AL	NL	AL	NL	AL	NL	AL	NL
MVP	Cabrera	Braun	Pujols	Upton	Cabrera	Kemp	Cabrera	Kemp
CY	Lester	Halladay	Verlander	Halladay	Sabathia	Halladay	Lester	Kershaw
ROY	Montero	Alonso	Moore	Cozart	Montero	Teheran	Montero	Alonso

Looks like we all have different winners of the major awards, and Grey apparently hates Miguel Cabrera. What a jerk. Of course, all of us except for him hate Justin Verlander now.

Let us know in the comments which of our predictions you like and which you think we are completely wrong about, and feel free to leave your own as well in the wonderful (derp) comment section.

As always, you can use Twitter to holler at me @WalkoffWoodward, Erin @SabreRoseTiger, Grey @spacemnkymafia and Packey @Detroit4Lyfe if you so desire.