I've been known to make the odd prediction or two in my days blogging baseball. It's just sort of what we do. For the last year or so, I've been trying not to do that anymore, because my predictions have the same accuracy as a sniper rifle fired by Helen Keller from a bouncy castle whilst in the depths of a model airplane glue binge. Apart from my usual fake-but-not-really yearly prediction that the Cubs are going to win the World Series in (insert current year here), I've made some crap serious predictions along the way. Just looking at last year's is enough to make my skin crawl.



On Geovany Soto: "Soto is one of the few home-grown Cubs to leave us with nothing but unrestrained optimism"

On Derrek Lee/Micah Hoffpauir: "We still hope [Hoffpauir] gets a chance to show what he can do this year. It can't be worse than 6-4-3 Lee."

On Angel Guzman: "He was an exciting prospect around the time I was learning to drink whiskey in the dorms. Will this finally be his year? No, it wont. But I had to ask."

So yeah, prediction's not my thing, despite some solid ones that snuck into the 2009 preview. But instead of running from it, I've decided that I'm going to own that shit. You'll now see monthly predictions, along with a recap of the season's predictive results so far. We'll gauge just how bad a Psychic Friend I am, and measure me against other EOC writers. It'll be fun. Or if not fun, at least monthly.

April 2010 Predictions


1. Soriano finishes the month with an average under .250, and proceeds to bitch about the fans at least once. This is too easy.
-John

2. My prediction is that Micah Hoffpauir is dealt to another team by the end of April. In a perfect world, it will be announced this week that Kevin Millar has won the final bench spot. The Cubs would then let Chad Tracy walk and send down Fuld and Hoffpauir. It's no secret that we could use a little more stability at the back end of the bullpen. Perhaps if we could trade Hoffpauir and possibly a minor league arm for someone like, say, Luke Gregerson, we could get simplify our OF logjam.
- T.R.