For Fox Sports, John Halpin writes a prediction (or two) for every NL team.  However, his prediction isn’t about wins and losses, its about individual players.  For the Mets, he writes about Jose Reyes:

Reyes scored 119 runs and stole 78 bases last year, so this phrase is going to seem strange: Now he’s going to get really good.

The 24-year-old shortstop progressed from hacker in 2005 (27 walks) to very patient hitter in 2007 (77 walks). With improved patience often comes power, and because of Reyes’ age, I’m willing to chalk up his second-half slump last year to the team-wide malaise that affected the Mets, whether it makes sense or not. We could get a .300 average, 20 home runs, and the same numbers of steals and runs from Reyes, and that would be phenomenal. Hanley Ramirez, watch your back.

I love it, let’s just hope its true.

Spiteful Mets fans also might be happy about the fact that Halpin predicts that Tom Glavine’s ERA will be above 5.00.

Filed under: Andrew Beaton, Jose Reyes, Tom Glavine