Not to be confused with the other thing I always refer to, this was last weeks Sporting News Issue.
The cover this year: Barry Zito
Power Rankings:
1. Twins
2. Tigers
3. Yankees
4. Red Sox
5. Mets
6. Phillies
I think that the year the Twins will def. win the World Series, or get there will be 2008. They will have Johan, a healthy Liriano and Mauer and Monroe with more experience….Plus a Perkins and Boonser with more experience…they can be dangerous
They give the best offseason move to the Tigers getting Gary Sheffield
Worst offeseason move to the Red Sox and JD Drew
Listed as teh #3 rookie to get starting jobs is Mike Pelfry
In Ranking the offseasons by division, they gave the Mets 3rd, because of all the reasons we have all heard over a million times.
For the detailed look at the Mets, they say that Pelfry and Perez are likly to get the 4th and 5th rotation spot jobs. They say Sanchez will be ready to pitch, but just in case, Heilman is still there to help out.
As you could imagine from previous articles in this issue, Pelfry, is one of the prospects to watch.
On the bottom of all the pages, they run a fantasy ticker that ranks the draft picks. Here are teh Mets listed and their number (there are 96 total listed)
5. Jose Reyes
20. Carlos Beltran
22. David Wright
38. Billy Wagner
47. Carlos Delgado
I think only 9 more days till Spring Training Games start. Then we can look at, examine, disect, extrapolate stats that mean nothing at all but warm up for the regular season.
Oh, I also registered for an ESPN fantasy team yesterday and a MLB fantasy team…Im still gonna register at Yahoo
