I really hope Hurricane Earl doesn't rain out any of this weekends Jays-Yankees series.

You may get to see Supernova.

Already seen him thanks. As I recall, he didn't really hit it off with Bautista.

Your pitchers might want avoid trying to bean Jose. It just makes his bat angry.

Looks like Nova will be up against Morrow tomorrow night. That's a tough match up for him, especially with it being Morrow's last start of the season. After a shakey start, he's been fantastic this year and will want to go out on a high.

Go Rays

I'm going to Riga for the weekend so won't get to see a potentially division defining series at the Cards which starts tomorrow. Not posting anything for fear of cursing the Reds. Great article about Strasburg's injury here which underlines Chapman's potential indirectly as well.

I'm going to Riga for the weekend so won't get to see a potentially division defining series at the Cards which starts tomorrow. Not posting anything for fear of cursing the Reds. Great article about Strasburg's injury here which underlines Chapman's potential indirectly as well.

OOOPS!

2010 NL Central Champions! Get in!

Haven't posted for a while in case I cursed the Reds. Now they're champs and I can post away. Great season no matter what happens in the postseason. Getting a winning record was brilliant but the win the division exceeds my own expectations.

I'm not expecting much from the postseason because we've been battered a bit by our likely opponents and with H2O a possibility just to win a postseason game would be great. You never know though because I was reading somewhere that the highest seeded team in the NL has gone out five times in the first round over the past decade and only one has reached the World Series since 2004. All to play for really then.

Great stuff considering you have the more favoured Cubs and Cardinals in your division. Good luck inthe playoffs. I can see us struggling as we've been awful the past month. New season now though.

The AL playoffs are going to be very interesting. All 4 teams have been less than convincing towards the end of September. It really is anybodys at this point I think.

Just watching the Giants-Pads game right now. Exciting stuff happening in the NL.

I'm shouting for the Reds in the post season, although I do hope Halladay does well in his starts.

As for the Jays, we surprised a few people this season and ended up 10 games better than 2009. It was definitely the year of the long ball for us. Bautista finishing on 54 HRs (a new club record by some margin), John Buck and Johnny Mac also had career high HR numbers this year. We also finished with a new club record for team HRs (257) which ties us for 3rd on the all time list. Finally we hit 20+ HRs from every single position. We were certainly a lot of fun to watch but I'm hoping for a bit more balance in the offence next year.

As for the starting rotation, it surprised the hell out of a lot of people this year, me included. Marcum, Romero, Cecil and Morrow all look like the real deal and I can only imagine that next year they'll be even stronger. We have healthy competition for that 5th spot too.

Biggest questions marks are 1B, 3B and catcher. Not sure what move AA is going to make regarding those positions. Will be an intersting off-season. But in the meantime, GO REDS!!! (and Doc)