Forecast: National League preview

— -- Welcome to our first ESPN MLB Forecast.

In the days ahead, we'll roll out a preview for all 30 teams as well as our predictions for how each team will do this season, including the six division winners, four wild cards, league championship series winners and World Series winner. We'll also hand out predictions for all of the traditional awards -- rookie of the year, Cy Young and MVP.

For our results, we surveyed our Forecast panel on each topic.

Let's begin with a look at the league that was the runner-up in last season's World Series.

Here goes ...

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@Buster_ESPN: Colorado faces its age-old problem: piecing together enough pitching to compete for the NL West title. But at least this time around the Rockies appear to have a couple of high-end options on the way in Jon Gray and Eddie Butler. If those two can translate, the Rockies can contend.