ESPN picks the World Series winner

It's always amusing to track experts' predictions for the baseball playoffs, which have been so utterly unpredictable of late that a prognosticator stands barely more than a statistical chance of actually being correct. In other words, their guess is as good as anyone's. ESPN asked 15 of their experts to take a crack at it though, and here are the teams involved, their season records, how many think they'll make it to the World Series, and finally the number of picks they received to win it all:

St. Louis       100 62 (7,2)
Chi White Sox    99 63 (1,0)
NY Yankees       95 67 (3,1)
Boston           95 67 (2,1)
LA Angels        95 67 (9,6)
Atlanta          90 72 (0,0)
Houston          89 73 (8,5)
San Diego        82 80 (0,0)