AL West

Final standings predictions look like:

Team	Wins	Losses
Anaheim	87	75
Oakland	80	82
Texas	79	83
Seattle	75	87

Somebody has to win the division and it's hard to see it being anyone but the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.

Seattle in last goes right against "popular wisdom" with many commentators seeing them as challengers for a playoff spot. Then again, many of them think Seattle have the best defense in the league!

Oakland and Texas will likely both be content with ~.500 finishes this season and look forward to building on that for next year.

AL West All-Star Team
C - Kenji Johjima (seriously!)
1B - Daric Barton
2B - Ian Kinsler
3B - Adrian Beltre
SS - Michael Young
LF - Travis Buck (yes, I'm moving him to the left because I don't like my options)
CF - Ichiro!
RF - Vlad Guerrero
DH - Josh Hamilton

SP - Felix Hernandez
SP - Erik Bedard
SP - Rich Harden
SP - John Lackey
SP - Jon Garland (yes, the division is so bad my All-Star rotation consists of three injured guys and Jon freaking Garland!)

Bench
Gerald Laird
Raul Ibañez (for pinch-hitting and occasional DHing only)
Jose Lopez
Chone Figgins
Torii Hunter

Bullpen
J.J. Putz
Huston Street
Francisco Rodriguez
Eric O'Flaherty (oops, he's just been sent back to the minors, oh well)
Scot Shields
Justin Speier

MVP?
Ichiro!

Cy?
King Felix (MVP and Cy both from the bottom club!?)

ROY?
Barton


I think I'll just move straight on to the AL overall without further comment on this division...