1. Boston Red Sox (102-60) - Additions of Adrian Gonzalez and Carl Crawford add to an already tough offense in Boston. Good luck opposing pitching, this looks like an All-Star game lineup, not your everyday lineup.
2. New York Yankees (94-68) - A questionable pitching
staff behind C.C. Sabathia and Phil Hughes leave question marks for New York for 2011. Is their offense good enough to make up for spotty starting pitching?
3. Tampa Bay Rays (86-76) - Jake McGee. Name sound familiar? Most likely not but he is the likely candidate to be the Rays closer this season and has only totaled 5 career innings pitched. The Rays brought in two veterans on the decline in Manny Ramirez and Johnny Damon. Overall, the Rays do not have enough weapons to compete with the two top gun teams in the AL East.
4. Baltimore Orioles- (81-81) - Buck Showalter's team finished 34-23 leaving a big bright spot in an otherwise disaster 2010 campaign. Solid acquisitions of Mark Reynolds, Derrek Lee, JJ Hardy, Kevin Gregg, and Justin Duchscherer make this team capable of a .500 record for the first time since 1997.
5. Toronto Blue Jays- (73-89) Toronto features a free swinging lineup with a young and inexperienced starting five. There are questions at the closer position with top candidate being Frank Francisco. With Jose Bautista being hard pressed to duplicate last seasons numbers and face of the franchise Vernon Wells being traded to the Angels, Toronto will be in a battle for 4th place, but will fall short.
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