It’s that time of year again. With the regular season coming to a close UmpBumpers Coley, Paul, and Nick bring you our picks for the postseason hardware. As usual, these are not predictions of who we think *will* win, but picks for who we think *should* win, if the sportswriters had any brains at all! [...]

A few weeks ago Coley made some bold predictions for 2010. Today, each of the UmpBump writers will predict which team will make the playoffs and who will win the MVP, Cy Young, and Rookie of the Year awards. Coley: NL East: Braves NL Central: Cardinals NL West: Rockies NL Wildcard: Phillies AL East: Rays [...]

One of the guys in my fantasy league, Ben, has kind of a big mouth (and, I was reminded during a recent visit, unnaturally stinky farts). Last spring, at our urging, he posted a handful of predictions on the league bulletin board. Here are some highlights: Soriano will post better numbers than…..Braun, Markakis, and Berkman. [...]

Today, the SF Chronicle’s John Shea suggests the NL manager of the year award is a two-man race, between the Rockies’ Jim Tracy and the Giants’ Bruce Bochy. Here’s his thinking: Given voters’ tendencies, let’s cross out Lou Piniella (last year’s winner) and Charlie Manuel (no one has won the award after appearing in the [...]

Earlier today I wrote a post looking back at my preseason picks to see how right I was (to the extent that anybody can be right about something 2/5 of the way through the season). And brother, when I’m right, I’m right. Except when it comes to predicting the AL West. Then I’m (probably) very [...]

Here we are, about 2/5 of the way through the season, and I thought it would be fun to take a look back at some of the predictions I made in March and see how they’re holding up. NL East: Phillies — Obviously, Philadelphia’s pitching has been a disaster of late. But it’s not like [...]