SI cover includes Braun

Mar/27/08 08:21 AM Filed in: Ryan Braun
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Milwaukee Brewers left fielder Ryan Braun is one of six young major-league stars pictured on the cover of this week's Sports Illustrated, the magazine's baseball preview issue.

Braun shares the cover with other players chosen in the 2005 draft: Arizona's Justin Upton, Colorado's Troy Tulowitzki, Boston's Jacoby Ellsbury and Clay Buchholz and Washington's Ryan Zimmerman.

The magazine predicts the Brewers will finish out of the playoffs and in third place in the NL Central with a record of 85-77, six games behind the 91-71 Chicago Cubs and two games behind the 87-75 Cincinnati Reds. It has Houston, St. Louis and Pittsburgh, in that order, in the bottom half of the division.

The magazine has the Cubs beating the Rockies in the NLCS, the Detroit Tigers beating the New York Yankees in the ALCS and the Tigers over the Cubs in the World Series.

(jsonline.com)