So here are his "surprise teams" to watch:
Tampa Bay Rays
Colorado Rockies
Minnesota Twins
Atlanta Braves
Arizona Diamondbacks
Cincinnati Reds
Cleveland Indians
His reasoning is mostly a lot of bullshit based on Spring Training stats, especially his jizzing all over the Rays (who are a very good team, don't get me wrong, but calm down Jon). But seriously, the Rockies and Twins made the playoffs last year. How would those teams "surprise" you in 2010? The Rays were in the World Series two years ago and had a rough year in a really awesome division last year, and still finished above .500. The Braves were... I want to say 86-76? and made a serious push at the Wild Card and division toward the end of the season. I'll give him the final three, even if they're just generally based on him blabbing on about ST. The Indians' top three starters are Jake Westbrook, Fausto Carmona, and Justin Masterson. ST don't mean shit, to quote LaTroy Hawkins; that's a bad rotation.
Also, I seriously want to fucking punch him in the face for going on about "a scout says... a NL executive said..." I really hate that shit. It says nothing. For one thing, we don't know if a scout actually said it, or if you just made it up. And also, even if a scout did say it, we don't know that there's not a scout that said something diametrically opposed to that thing. Agh!!!
Sorry, I'm apparently disproportionately angry over this.
