Move over, Tom Cruise. Or at least that futuristic cop he plays in Minority Report. We asked four ESPN baseball analysts and one of the game's savviest veterans to foretell the not-too-distant future, namely the second half of the season. Will Ichiro become the first .400 hitter since The Splinter? Are there any more managers left to fire? Are there are any more skeletons in the closet? Who's going to be hot after the break? Here's what our psychics had to say:

Will Ichiro hit .400?

ESPN's Tony Gwynn "I think he has a legitimate shot. What he does best is put the tough pitch in play, and the way he can run, he's capable of it. But the playing part is easy. The hard part is dealing with all the questions. If you're anywhere close going into September, the media scrutiny is there every day. If he can pretend he doesn't speak enough English, then he's got an even better shot."

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Who's the next manager to get the ax?

ESPN's Tim Kurkjian "Charlie Manuel, Indians. To be fair, he doesn't have anything close to the Tribe teams of recent years. But the pitching is good enough that they should be contending in a relatively weak AL Central. If Cleveland stumbles through August with no playoff hope, the ax might come then. More than one manager could go at season's end, including the Brewers' Jerry Royster."

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What's your wildest wild card prediction?

ESPN's Joe Morgan "The wildest wild card, hands down, would be the Texas Rangers because they're in last place in the tough AL West. The Rangers have potential, though. They have three quality teams in front of them in their own division, but the Rangers could go on a run and win 30 of 35 games. Maybe they won't do it, but they are capable."

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Enough about steroids -- what will be baseball's next big scandal?

ESPN's Rob Dibble "Okay, get this -- there's a magnet inside the baseball and a super-powered magnet in a submarine in the San Francisco Bay. That's why no motor-powered vehicles are allowed there, see. Those home runs have nothing to do with Barry. I think I saw somebody holding a 30-foot magnet at Yankee Stadium when Bonds was there, too."

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Who's going to have a monster second half?

Arizona 1B Mark Grace "Watch out for Scott Rolen. He's going to get pissed off real soon. And when he does, he's gonna make people pay."

This article appears in the July 8 issue of ESPN The Magazine.