Offseason Predictions

Now that teams can officially make offers to free agents, here are some more random offseason predictions:

"In the year 2000..."

-The Mets don't sign K-Rod and instead go for Brian Fuentes and Kerry Wood which better rebuilds their bullpen. With that said I can't think of any other obvious suitors for K-Rod so I'll say he goes to the Tigers who will finish no higher than 3rd next year, or sleeper pick the Brewers who will have some cash and just lost their closer Torres to retirement.

-I had a joke prediction about Furcal before, I'll give a real one this time saying he goes to the Royals who with their Gil Meche signing proved they will pay some cash for Free Agents.

-The Red Sox sign some Japanese reliever that does unreasonably well and makes the Yankees look bad. The success rate for Japanese relievers doing well their first season or so in the majors is way too good not to try this often, the Yankees should get on that boat, while shipping Igawa on another.

-Raul Ibanez signs with a team that will regret signing him. A bad fielding although consistently good hitting LF, I can't see him doing well, or as well as he has recently, for the duration of his contract. I'll say he goes to the Braves.

-A.J. Burnett goes to the Mets. They swap one risky but potentially great starter in Oliver Perez for another. Oliver Perez signs with the Dodgers. I was going to say the Cardinals until I remembered they laughably overpayed to resign Kyle Lohse.

-Adam Dunn. I've been thinking about this one, and I can't really pick a team that will sign him. I think whoever ends up signing him won't regret it because they would get him knowing how regardless of his negatives his positives help teams win. But I have to make a prediction so he signs with the Mariners. At this point they have to know they need onbase help, they get Dunn to replace Ibanez without losing much fielding, and maybe add Giambi too to patch up their lineup. Their lineup will still probably be mediocre or bad, not because of Dunn, along with their team, but hey its a try. Getting Bedard was a try too and look how that helped them. The more I wrote about this the more Dunn to the Mariners makes sense, so I was kind of lying in the beginning I guess.