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Cleveland There’s Always Next Years (2021 Season)

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Bucklion said:
No homers, no runs. Unless juiced Bell and Ramirez show up from the minors, this team is going to waste a lot of good starting pitching (and play 7 innings of useless baseball if they give up 4-6 in the first 2)
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Break out the time machine and send some of these pitchers back to the mid 90's when they could hit, but had shitty pitching. At least that way the Indians would have won a WS in my lifetime.
 
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Bucklion said:
No homers, no runs. Unless juiced Bell and Ramirez show up from the minors, this team is going to waste a lot of good starting pitching (and play 7 innings of useless baseball if they give up 4-6 in the first 2)
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So, I mean, I don't get the reluctance to waive Jake Bauers, no one is going to claim him... if its Homer or bust, you might as well have Bobby Bradley scare them into the miniscule possibility he's going to hit it into the lake... and I'm hoping the real service time manipulation here is Nolan Jones, I mean, he's probably the 5-6-7th best hitter in the whole organization, I'm not sure why Ben Gamel needs "not gonna hit a homer or anything else" at bats... are we making sure the Luplow/Rosario Platoon can hold up in Center?
 
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buckeyemania11 said:
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And yet they're 6-5... which as we know, in the Tito era, if you get out of April somewhere in the vicinity of .500... you're in pretty good shape.... usually.

Honestly, if you really look at it (and guys don't suck) Lindor wasn't all that good last year offensively, so you trade Rosario (because well, the OF wasn't all that good last year) for Gimenez, and Santana was trash... so he's really the only thing you need to replace, and the sooner you're not giving at bats to Jake Bauers the sooner you'll be doing that. Will Josh Naylor be good? I dunno but he can't be worse....

The Indians outfield... you know, basically 2 offensive positions in it, in 60 games was actually worse than that slash line you have there...

(In case you think I made that up, Rosario went .257 BA/.792 OPS to Lindors .258/.750 -- Santana was .199/.699 and the OPS is only because he walked 47 times in 255 PA)
 
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AKAK said:
And yet they're 6-5... which as we know, in the Tito era, if you get out of April somewhere in the vicinity of .500... you're in pretty good shape.... usually.

Honestly, if you really look at it (and guys don't suck) Lindor wasn't all that good last year offensively, so you trade Rosario (because well, the OF wasn't all that good last year) for Gimenez, and Santana was trash... so he's really the only thing you need to replace, and the sooner you're not giving at bats to Jake Bauers the sooner you'll be doing that. Will Josh Naylor be good? I dunno but he can't be worse....

The Indians outfield... you know, basically 2 offensive positions in it, in 60 games was actually worse than that slash line you have there...

(In case you think I made that up, Rosario went .257 BA/.792 OPS to Lindors .258/.750 -- Santana was .199/.699 and the OPS is only because he walked 47 times in 255 PA)
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No you're right. Lindor was mediocre at best offensively last year.

Pitching definitely carried the load. IDK how sustainable them doing the same thing again is in a regular length season however.
 
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