I was in Border's today so I took the liberty of checking out the 2010 "Baseball Preview" magazines.  Here's how these national publications see the Rangers doing this season in the AL West.

Sporting News

   1.  Angels

   2.  Mariners

   3.  Rangers

   4.  A's

Athlon Sports 

   1.  Angels

   2.  Texas Rangers

   3.  Mariners

   4.  A's

2010 Major League Baseball Yearbook

   1.  Mariners

   2.  Angels

   3.  A's

   4.  Rangers

Beckett 2010 Preview

   1.  Angels

   2.  Mariners

   3.  Rangers

   4.  A's

Overall not very good news for us Ranger fans if you give these publications any credibility.  As to predictions, I have a suggestion for LSB.  Someone, Adam I suppose, set up a template for all of us to post our predictions in one thread.  No commenting by others in this thread about the postings (save that for elsewhere), just a kind of reference thread in which we all give our preseason predictions.  This way we can all easily check back during the year to see who had it right and who had it wrong.  I would suggest the template include:  AL West standings prediction, record of each AL West team, prediction of Rangers top position player, pitcher, and ROY for 2010.  Each poster should give his analysis of why they made te predicitons they made and for fun might include something like a surprise prediction for something that will happen in the year.  What are your thoughts?