At ESPN, their baseball staff has compiled their predictions for the baseball year, including division winners, World Series winner, Cy Young Winner, MVPs and Rookies of the Year.

Notably, many of the ESPN ranking analysts picked the Braves to win the division, such as Jayson Stark, Peter Gammons and Buster Olney.

At ESPN, Stark explains why he thinks the Braves will win the World Series: 

It’s too late to rewrite the history of the teams that ran off those 14 titles. But the great thing about sports is that the next chapter in the history books always can look different than the chapters that came before it. So don’t let the lack of clubhouse volume fool you. This is a team talented enough to resculpt history.

The only reporter to have the Mets winning the world series is Enrique Rojas of ESPN Deportes.

10 of the 20 analysts had a Met winning the MVP, 9 predicting David Wright would win, while Phil Rogers thinks Johan Santana will win.  13 predicted Johan Santana will win the Cy Young.

I think predicting wins and losses is stupid, but I do think this reminds me of the point that the Braves are well-rounded.  I’m much more worried about them than the Phillies.

If you’re more curious about why I think predicting end-results is pointless, check out last year’s predictions on ESPN, and count to see how many even have the Rockies in the playoffs, and check out how many have the Twins in the playoffs…among various mistakes that were made.  As an educated fan, you have as much of a shot as predicting what will happen.  Does the guy with the best NCAA bracket every year work for ESPN?

Hat tip to Vines for the link to this  year’s predictions.