I'm bored, so here are my bold predictions for the upcoming season.

•Brandon Crawford (yes, the guy I wanted sent down to AAA last May) wins a gold glove

•Pablo hits 40 HRs if he stays healthy

•Buster hits 30 HRs and hits .330

•Belt finally finds his stroke and hits close to 20 HRs

•Mad Bum is in the Cy Young mix

•Timmy continues to struggle

•The Giants and Doyers will have a pennant race similar to the Giants and Braves 1993 race

Pretty optimistic predictions.
I'd say overly.

"•Timmy continues to struggle"

That's pessimistic.

;)

"•Mad Bum is in the Cy Young mix"

This has a chance.
The rest, don't think so.

Drop Pablo's HR totals by 10 and Posey and Belt's by 5 and I think you'll be nearer the mark.
Timmy will be back."Walk year" rules dictate this will be the case.
Crawford won't win a GG because, for some reason, those voting take more than defence in to account.
The Dodgers will have the meltdown of all meltdowns at some point in the season for reasons too hilarious to even take a guess at.

1. Vogey wins 20 games
2. Buster wins the Triple Crown
3. Pagan swipes 40 bags..
4.Dodgers end up in 3rd place!

-RIP-

3 of the 4 definitely could happen.

Vogey winning 20 is a stretch, but a bold prediction.

Also, I'm predicting that the Giants, Dodgers, and DBacks all win 90 games. Gibby's a motivator and will keep Arizona in contention.

In further news Marco Scutaro becomes the 1st human semi-successfully cloned! Being only partially successful his clone goes 4-5 with three RBI's on opening day!!!!!!!

-RIP-

Lincecum has a sub 3.00 ERA.

"Gibby's a motivator and will keep Arizona in contention."

Why didn't he motivate them last year? Didn't feel like it?

If Belt hitting ""close"" to 20 HR's is a bold prediction, that says a lot about Belt. IMAO.

Couldn't resist eh?

Here's my bold prediction.

At some stage throughout the season you go 24 hours without a post bashing Brandon Belt.

Sure it's optimistic on my part but hey, what's a world without hope?

The funny thing is, you have no retort to my content on the Belt comment, because there's nothing to say or dispute.

The truth hurts. Don't hate the messenger.

It says Belt is a punchless first baseman. That's not a good thing.

Belt from July 27 until October 3 hit .328.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.cgi?id=beltbr01&t=b&year=2012&share=0.19#149-208-sum:batting_gamelogs

OUCH!!!!!

Haha Belt cherrypickers crack me up.

Why not use season stats? Oh.... I know why.

You guys should form a league because you all follow the same modus operandi.

"The League of Cherrypicking Belt's Stats"

Nice try but you aren't dragging me into another Belt sh*t fight.

Try one of the newer posters on the board.

They may not be aware of your fixation.

"Nice try but you aren't dragging me into another Belt sh*t fight."

I don't blame you. That's why you wanted to shoot a dig at me but you couldn't refute my content, so you went after my character. You don't want to get in a "Belt fight" because you know you'll be unarmed. You proved that in your first response..... and your second.

Good day, sir.