In the past, I’ve looked at how my predictions from before the season at the Cardinal Courier turned out. So, going into Game 162 of the 162 game season, it’s time to look at how my predictions have turned out.

Let’s take a look (after the jump, of course):

Albert Pujols and Prince Fielder will do fine in their new cities (Anaheim and Detroit, respectively).

Yeah, more or less.

Justin Verlander will win the AL Cy Young again, but won’t win the MVP again. Instead, Albert Pujols will. He tends to do that.

Nope, Albert Pujols won’t win the MVP. Verlander does have a real chance for Cy Young, though, although it’ll be close with David Price.

The new addition of a extra wild card will make the post-season race more entertaining most years, but this year it will feel underwhelming, since last season’s playoff race was so historic.

So far, so good.

The Marlins will be the most entertaining ballclub in years, and the second season of The Franchise will be one of the most hilarious documentary series ever created, if only because it will have raw, uncensored, Ozzie Guillen rants.

Well, it was for a few episodes, until the Marlins fell off the map competitively.

The Nationals and Royals will be the “surprise” teams of 2012.

Replace “Royals” with “Orioles” and we’re on to something.

The Mets will stink.

They figured out a way to turn their early success into, well, being the Mets.

This will be the last season for Chipper Jones (who’s confirmed as much), Mariano Rivera (who has hinted as much), Jim Thome, Todd Helton, Roy Oswalt (if he even signs anywhere), Johnny Damon (if he even signs anywhere) and Arthur Rhodes (did you even know he was still in the league?)

Mixed bag. Arthur Rhodes hasn’t even played.

If Twins first-baseman Justin Morneau suffers concussion symptoms again, he will retire for medical reasons. He will go down as one of the great “what might have beens” in sports history.

Has had something of a bounce-back year, free of concussions symptoms.

Yu Darvish and Yoennis Cespedes, the two big imported players this season (Darvish from Japan, Cespedes defected from Cuba), will do fine, although Darvish is the one more likely to win AL “Rookie” of the Year.

More or less correct, but, as I said at the All-Star Break, Mike Trout will win the RoY.

Bryce Harper will arrive by mid-summer and will become one of the most polarizing athletes this side of Tim Tebow.

Arrived early, hasn’t been very polarizing (other than clown questions, bro).

Matt Kemp will win NL MVP, but won’t have a 50-50 season, like he said he is aiming for.

Injuries derailed it.

Roy “Doc” Halladay will be the NL Cy Young winner. This is, of course, hardly a bold prediction.

Nope.

Alex Rodriguez will tie Lou Gehrig’s record for career grand slams.

He did.

Bryan Stow, the Giants fan who was savagely beaten outside of Dodger Stadium last opening day, will be throwing a ceremonial first pitch out at AT&T Park by the end of the season. And everyone will cry.

Not yet, but, hey, there is still the postseason.

Young Royals slugger Eric Hosmer will win the Home Run Derby, fittingly held in Kansas City.

Hosmer has been having a sophomore slump, and didn’t become an All-Star, much less a Home Run Derby participant.

The NL will win the All-Star Game.

Yes, they did.

At least one Cy Young candidate will have his season ended early when he requires Tommy John Surgery.

Hmmm… not really.

Every home run hit by Ryan Braun will be scrutinized.

Not so much.

The Astros will spend their last year in the National League by being so irrelevant everybody will forget they are in any league.

55-106, last in the NL Central. Look out, American League West!

Joe Mauer will drop his good manners for a few minutes and ask that the walls at Target Field be moved in.

Nope.

The Cubs and White Sox will both stink, to the point where fans will be chanting for the Bears by late June.

The White Sox stuck around until near the end of the season before the Tigers eliminated them.

Andy Pettitte’s comeback won’t go as well as he and the Yankees are hoping.

To be determined. His return from injury has gone pretty well.

Giancarlo Stanton will be referred to as Mike Stanton many times, which isn’t surprising, as he was going by Mike Stanton until this offseason before beginning to use his real first name.

He has, but after a few months it stopped.

Buster Posey will be back and will be an All-Star.

He has, and in fact he has a good chance at MVP.

Ichiro will continue his downward slide, but still will probably be the best hitter on the Mariners.

He is continuing to struggle at the plate, but was one of the better hitters on Seattle… and is now having a late-season resurrection in the Bronx. I’m not a Yankees fan, but I got to admit, it’ll be fun to see Ichiro in the postseason.

The Cardinals and Reds will have a bench-clearing brawl.

Nope, although I guess there’s the slight chance of the playoffs.

The Reds will, shockingly, have the best record in the National League, as their pitchers return from their injury-prone 2011 season and they’ve added the better-than-his-win-loss-record-suggests Mat Latos. Oh, and they are in the same division as the Cubs, Pirates and Astros, a great way to inflate a win total.

Going into the final day, the Reds are tied for the best record in baseball with the Nationals. Of all of the predictions I’ve made, this is the one I’m most proud of.

The Orioles will remain three-to-five years away from a return to glory, just like they have been every year since 1997.

Buck Showalter laughs at my pitiful prediction.

AL Division winners: Yankees, Tigers and Angels (best record).

If the season were to end RIGHT NOW, I’d be 2/3rds right, but there’s a chance I’ll end up only being 1/3rd right.

NL Division winners: Phillies, Reds (the surprise best record in the NL) and Diamondbacks.

I got one out of three right.

The AL Wild Cards will be the Rays and the Rangers. The Rays will win the game.

Chance of Rangers, but Rays have been eliminated.

The NL Wild Cards will be the Giants and the Marlins. The Giants will win the game.

Nope. Giants won the division, and the Marlins… didn’t.

The ALDSes will see the Angels beat the Rays and the Tigers beat the Yankees.

The NLDSes will see the Phillies beat the Diamondbacks and the Giants defeat the Reds.

The Tigers will beat the Angels in the ALCS

The Phillies will outlast the Giants in the NLCS.

The Phillies will defeat the Tigers in the World Series.

Hmm, I think I messed this up a bit… but at least I still have a chance at the Tigers winning the AL!