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Or starting pitching. Or offense. Apart from that, things are peachy!
I've been really worried about the '09 Indians for months now, and I was hoping it was just my Cleveland Fan Paranoia. It's not. Pretty much everything that worried me has happened.
I'm not calling for anyone's head, but if Eric Wedge gets canned, I'd like to hear the front office explain how he was supposed to win 90 ballgames with Carl Pavano as his third starter. Wedge ain't exactly Earl Weaver or John McGraw, but he just doesn't have a chance with the pitchers he's been given to work with.
Looking forward to that one. Hope the shitbag gets lit up.
Mark Shapiro sure gets a lot of credit for a guy whose teams consistently underperform.
(Actually, to be fair, I didn't pick them last season. Of course, I went with the Tigers so...)
I think the offense will be fine, Hafner and Martinez both are looking much better than last year, and I don't think there's any reason to think Sizemore won't put up similar numbers. I do hope we see LaPorta sooner than later.
The pitching on the other hand, will not be fine.
I've been thinking the same thing for several years now. He's pulled off some awesome trades, but his record is pretty underwhelming otherwise. The two best position players they've drafted and developed in the past ten years are Ryan Garko and Ben Francisco.
If you're not going to spend money and you're not going to draft anything useful, you're not going to win. Simple as that. At some point, people are going to stop trading you guys like Grady Sizemore and Travis Hafner.
Sweet. I don't think it will be too hard to get pretty much any tickets this year. Even considering the cold weather this past weekend, the crowd on Saturday seemed far smaller than I would have expected for the home opening weekend.
Didn't Cameron or someone else of his stature recently give the Shapiro front office an A+ and rank the organization fourth overall among big league teams in a recent article? I find the fawning equally inexplicable.
That's, uh, not very good. I always think the Twins struggle at drafting offensive players, but in the past 10 years they've developed Mauer, Span, and Morneau (he's right on the 10-year bubble). On the other hand, the Twins supplement their inability to develop hitters by churning out pitchers like crazy (Slowey, Baker, Garza, Crain, Blackburn, Perkins).
He's kind of the anti-Ken Williams. Everyone loves Shapiro's moves, but his teams generally underachieve, while everyone hates KW's moves, and his teams generally do better than many think they will.
Well Shapiro, and the Indians FO, is a favourite among certain stat head circles, "smart, young, progressive". Just like Kenny Williams used to be, and still sometimes is, considered an utter incompetent among those circles.
Well, I think they'll win more than the 20 games or whatever they're on pace for.
In all seriousness, the thing about the Indians is like what Dan said above - it's exactly the thing that Indians fans were worried about that's been a big problem in the early going. The pitching has been horrible thus far, just as it looked like it would be on paper.
The Tribe might well finish around .500, and that might be enough in a weak division. But those who were picking them as clear favorites seem pretty wrong.
In all seriousness, the thing about the Indians is like what Dan said above - it's exactly the thing that Indians fans were worried about that's been a big problem in the early going. The pitching has been horrible thus far, just as it looked like it would be on paper.
The Tribe might well finish around .500, and that might be enough in a weak division. But those who were picking them as clear favorites seem pretty wrong.
But it's 8 games. Even the mid 90's Braves would have 8 game stretches where the pitching looks horrible.
I don't think one can draw any conclusions from 8 games.
Eight games, plus the previous track records of those pitchers.
Carmona and Lee should regress to the mean, but is anyone surprised that the rest of that rotation is bad?
Right now, my gut tells me Cleveland's win total is going to be closer to 80 than 85. They absolutely could still win the division if they get hot.
Maybe you should get a job with Baseball Prospectus and/or the Indians.
I don't think there's any way Hafner could have looked worse than he did last year.
If you're not going to spend money and you're not going to draft anything useful, you're not going to win. Simple as that. At some point, people are going to stop trading you guys like Grady Sizemore and Travis Hafner.
Thank God Choo came back and started OPS+'ing 130...I was beginning to think they'd never bother filling the gaping holes in LF and RF that have been there for, like, 4 years now.
So RF seems solved, but LF is still a black hole. Too bad there weren't any legit corner outfield bats available for peanuts this offseason. Sure sucks to run Ben Francisco out there every day when the division is ours for the taking.
This is a grievous insult to John McDonald.
But seriously, Jhonny Peralta was drafted and developed by them. And by "drafted" I mean "signed". He's the only other one I can think of.
You can also count Victor Martinez (1996) and Fausto Carmona (2000) if you're willing to count guys who came into the organization under Hart. Regardless, the point is that the Indians' drafts and international programs haven't produced much in recent years, at least as far as major leaguers go.
Guys like Hector Rondon, Kelvin de la Cruz, and Nick Weglarz look promising, but there was a period of time when it looked like Shapiro's only successful player development strategy was ripping off the Bill Bavasi and pulling off Einar Diaz/Ryan Drese for Travis Hafner type deals.
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