Season Over – Which Teams are Finished?

Stephen Kersey — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 07:41:13 +0000

Early in April, every team in the major leagues is feeling good about their chances. Big market, small market – it doesn’t matter. Early April brings optimism from every corner of the baseball world.

However, it doesn’t take long to see which teams are in line for a long, long season. Which teams should start looking toward the 2009 baseball season? Here’s my list of teams that already have no shot at postseason glory.

Washington Nationals

This one is really no surprise. The Nationals were expected to be bad and they are following through on that prophecy. The bad part for Nationals fans is that the future doesn’t look especially bright. Washington is desperate for a star to come along and pull them out of their malaise.

San Francisco Giants

While the Giants’ record isn’t that bad, their hitting is that bad. Bengie Molina swings a nice bat but when he’s your cleanup hitter, something is wrong. Year one After Bond is going to be a transitional year for the Giants. Honestly, it may be the first of many transitional years.

Texas Rangers

The Rangers have always had bad pitching. The problem is that now their hitting is also poor. Josh Hamilton has been impressive but he can’t carry the entire offensive load. To top it off, the Rangers aren’t very good in the field, either. Last place in the AL West beckons.

Kansas City Royals

The Royals have a decent record. Their pitchers are solid. They have good, young players. But 2008 will again not be the year of the Royals. However, for the first time in a long while, Kansas City has hope for future seasons.

Post from: Knuckle Curve

New Blogger for Knuckle Curve

Stephen Kersey — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:53:13 +0000

Hello, baseball world. I’m Stephen Kersey and I’ll be pinch-blogging for Geoff Young for the foreseeable future. I’ve enjoyed his blog since he first started it and I hope I can pick up where he’s left off. He has obviously laid a very nice foundation.

Some of you may know me from my fantasy basketball blog, Hoops Fantasy, here on b5media. I hope to bring that same passion for writing to baseball.

Baseball was my first love growing up and I played all the way through high school. I watch the game as much as possible and I expect that I’ll watch even more now that I’ll be blogging about the sport. Oddly enough, I don’t have a favorite baseball team. I’m more into following the storylines of each team and tracking the numbers. In the playoffs, I’ll usually root for the underdog – but that isn’t always the case. Basically, I’m just a baseball fan who loves the game and follows each team closely.

My goal is to blog at least twice a day and cover as broad a scope as possible. If it happens in the baseball world, I’m going to try to cover it.

Thanks for reading and I wish Geoff much success.

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