Peter Gammons preseason predictions 2002
I sometimes enjoy mocking Gammons for the pure volume of rumors he reports that don’t come true, but it’s hard not to acknowledge his central role in the information flow in and around MLB and its satellites. On the day that he published this year’s predictions, it seems a capital idea to take a look back at last year’s effort.
There are some clunkers. For instance, Sean Casey shows up both years as “Most newly healthy after playing through injury,” but because it wasn’t true last year doesn’t necessarily mean that it isn’t true this year.
But in general he got the pennant races right, shined a light on Odalis Perez, and got an awful lot of the other stuff close enough for sports writing. Makes me wonder why I didn’t bid more aggressively on Gil Meche yesterday.