Around 50 baseball fans and a lot of fantasy players convened at the Pyramid Alehouse last night for a Q & A session with James Glick and two other staffers (one was approx. McClefsky and I forgot the other one) from Baseball Prospectus.  It was nice to be around other obsessive baseball nerds.  Huckabay showed up for about twenty minutes but he can't talk anymore because Billy won't let him.

Glick and the other two fielded questions for over an hour.  The questions really covered the gamut, not focused on Oakland, due to the large presence of fantasy players and fans from other teams.

   -   Prospects?  Felix Hernandez is supposedly amazing.  They like David Wright.  BP's analysis of Daric Barton is hard to gauge because there's nobody to compare him to.  Nobody hits that well that young.  Glick really likes McPherson too.

   -   Little Three?  Glick says some people  think Meyer and Haren will be better than the current Mulder and Hudson.  That would be nice.

   -   AL West?  Glick thinks it will be a battle between A's and Angels.  Other BP guy said Texas offense isn't as good as it seems.  There are some problems.  Nobody would say who would win the AL West, but they think it'll be between A's and Angels.  M's are still a very old team.

   -   Depo?  They think he's doing well, can't vouch for the Lowe deal.  Dodgers will "run away" with division.

   -   Yankees?  BP's prediction has two bell curves:  one around 65 wins and the other around 105 wins!!

   -   Why no DJ?  "Because Hatteberg's a really, really nice guy."  DJ will be MVP again, come up 2006?

   -   Rumors?  will Sickels join BP? perhaps.

   -   Schilling ankle?  May miss all April.

   -   Breakout year?  Johan Santana.  Yes, Johan Santana.

   -   PECOTA?  Good for average players.

   -   And finally, the Brewers may be decent this year.

Any questions?