As promised, this week's column is devoted to predictions sent in by Baseball Bullet-In readers offering their hunches on how the 2001 Central and Pacific League pennant races will play out. Ten people responded and, since I offered to accept the picks by e-mail, there were even a few entries from outside Japan.
Though the season has already started, please note that all the predictions were received by me, either by fax or e-mail, prior to the Pacific League openers on March 24.
First, let's review my choices as posted in the last column here two weeks ago, in order of how I think the league races will finish in October (See table).