Awards/Predictions:

First-Half Breakout Player – Feldman

First-Half Surprise – Feldman

First-Half MVP – Millwood (even though he sucked the last 2 starts, he was still pretty good)

Biggest Bust (yeah, this will be tough…) – Davis

Biggest Game – 3 game sweep of the Angels

Worst Game – Any of the Detroit games

2nd Half Prediction (either a final record, bold prediction, promotion, trade, surprise, etc.) – 85-76

A:
Millwood
Feldman
Frankie
CJ
ODay
Young
Daniels

B:
Padilla
Grilli
Jennings
Hank
Ian
Elvis
Omar
Murphy
Cruz
Washington

C:
McCarthy
Harrison
Holland
Hunter
Mathis
Salty
Teagarden
Hamilton
Byrd
Jones

Other:
Eddie – D
Nippert – INC
Krush – F

First-Half Breakout Player – Nelson Cruz

First-Half Surprise – Starting rotation

First-Half MVP – Millwood

Biggest Bust (yeah, this will be tough…) – Davis

Biggest Game – Back to back walkoffs against Seattle

Worst Game – The loss in Detroit where CJ gave up 4 I believe to ruin a steller Millwood start

2nd Half Prediction (either a final record, bold prediction, promotion, trade, surprise, etc.) – 87-75, Davis comes back up in mid August and is the Davis we saw last year. We squeek into the playoffs by sweeping Anaheim in the last series of the year and get knocked out in 4 games by someone.

Awards/Predictions:

First-Half Breakout Player – Nelson Cruz

First-Half Surprise – Blalock healthy

First-Half MVP – Nelson Cruz

Biggest Bust (yeah, this will be tough…) – Davis

Biggest Game – Young’s walkoff HR

Worst Game – this whole last series in seattle

2nd Half Prediction (either a final record, bold prediction, promotion, trade, surprise, etc.) – 90-72, win the West, feliz shines in the playoffs a la k-rod.

Awards/Predictions:

First-Half Breakout Player – Nelson Cruz

First-Half Surprise – The Defense

First-Half MVP – Nelson Cruz

Biggest Bust (yeah, this will be tough…) – KKKKKKKKKKKKris Davis

Biggest Game – Angels series.

Worst Game – All games played in Detroit.

2nd Half Prediction (either a final record, bold prediction, promotion, trade, surprise, etc.) -Offense kicks it in gear and the Rangers win the division with 89 games.

Wash – A- … First place most of season.

Daniels – B… Benson over Feldman?

Elvis – A … Better than most expected, so far.

Kinsler – D … Great April, you have sucked snce then.

Blalock – B … Hank, I am giving you some slack. Don’t let me down.

Davis – K … What other grade does he deserve?

 Grades

A:
Young
Cruz (nice surprise)
Millwood
Feldman
Odday

B:
Kinsler
Andrus (only because he’s a rookie)
Murphy (a long way from that 0 for 200 start)
Byrd
Blalock
Jones
Vizquel
Padilla
Francisco
Jennings
Wilson
Guardado

C:
Hamilton
McCarthy

D:
Salty (would have been a C, but his catching kinda degraded recently imo)
Davis (would have been an F, but he did hit plenty of homers at least)
Teagarden (i’m sure he’d get better marks w/ more PT)
Harrison
Holland (wanna give him a C)

F:
Benson

First-Half Breakout Player – Cruz

First-Half Surprise – Odday (who??)

First-Half MVP – Cruz

Biggest Bust– Davis

Biggest Game – i’ll take a young walk off homer for 500 alex

Worst Game – 1-3 against seattle. CJ gave up 3 in the 8th

2nd Half Prediction rangers finish 90-72

First-Half Breakout Player – Cruz

First-Half Surprise – O’Day

First-Half MVP – Fx2 or Cruz

Biggest Bust (yeah, this will be tough…) – Davis (with Kinsler 2nd)

2nd Half Prediction (either a final record, bold prediction, promotion, trade, surprise, etc.) -

Rangers win 90 games and finish 2nd.
Chris Davis is traded and never plays another game for the Rangers

First-Half Breakout Player – Andrus

First-Half Surprise – Millwood

First-Half MVP – Millwood

Biggest Bust (yeah, this will be tough…) – Chris Davis

Biggest Game – holding off the Angels when they almost rallied a couple months ago

Worst Game – King Felix game from the other day (CJ meltdown)

2nd Half Prediction (either a final record, bold prediction, promotion, trade, surprise, etc.) – 2nd place finish, 5 out of the wild card

First-Half Breakout Player – Andrus

First-Half Surprise – Andrus

First-Half MVP – Kinsler

Biggest Bust (yeah, this will be tough…) – Not really tough at all – Salty

Biggest Game – Closing out the sweep against the Angels in May

Worst Game – CJ blowing up in Detroit sticks out, but it’s hard to pick just one

2nd Half Prediction (either a final record, bold prediction, promotion, trade, surprise, etc.) – Rangers finish in a dead heat with the Angels for the division, have an off-day offensively in their 1-game playoff and miss the postseason. Final record: 88-75.

Breakout player – Cruz

Surprise – O’Day

MVP -Cruz

Bust – CD

Biggest Game – CD walkoff HR

Worst Game – Almost every game in June

Second Half Prediction – Rangers stay close ‘til that last stretch of games and the final road trip. Finish in 2nd place behind Anaheim. The A’s will overtake the M’s for 3rd place. No trades are made. Feliz comes up but struggles. I jump off a bridge.

First-Half Breakout Player – No contest Nellie Cruz

First-Half Surprise – Elvis Andrus

First-Half MVP – Kevin Millwood

Biggest Bust (yeah, this will be tough…) – Obviously Chris Davis but Salty deserves honorable mention

Biggest Game – FOF walkoff on last game of home stand

Worst Game – Any game played in Detriot

2nd Half Prediction (either a final record, bold prediction, promotion, trade, surprise, etc.) – We reach 92 wins, Chris Davis comes back up Crushes like he did last year and Holland starts pitching much better.

First-Half Breakout Player – Frankie Francisco

First-Half Surprise – Elvis Andrus

First-Half MVP – CJ Wilson

Biggest Bust (yeah, this will be tough…) – Brandon McCarthy

Biggest Game – 5/4/09, Elvis makes an awesome play to get Johjima in the bottom of the 9th.

Worst Game – Memorial Day

2nd Half Prediction (either a final record, bold prediction, promotion, trade, surprise, etc.) – Division winners with 92 wins.

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