OMG! How bad will the Indians be this season?

They look horrible on paper...

Look at their rotation.

Fausto Carmona 3.77 ERA

Justin Masterson
4.70 ERA .278 OPP BA 6-13 last year LHH batted .290

Carlos Carrasco
Young inexperience pitcher .276 OPP BA

Josh Tomlin
Young inexperience pitcher 4.56 ERA last year

Mitch Talbot
Almost more BBs than walks, 1.49 WHIP

David Huff

6.21 ERA 1.7 WHIP 37K 34BB


Bullpen suspect..


Sizemore coming off knee surgery and wont be in lineup til a few weeks in season. Santana too.

Indians defense is horrible, and they dont have strikeout pitchers.

Hitting looks average..


This team will be losing.

Gyno,Yes another long year of watching crappy baseball in Cleveland again and what is the win total on this team this year ?

I long for the days of baerga, joey belle, thome and man ram!!!

I posted this a few weeks back...

Don't look for these guys to score many runs. They are extremely young and Sizemore, Hafner, and an emerging Choo aren't going to be able to make up for quite a few guys not ready for the MLB level. They are still a year away from being close to productive.

There isn't much to count on here outside of Fausto Carmona, and even he is a bit iffy since his ERA was lower than what his WHIP would usually indicate last year. Anthony Reyes still intrigues me but I'm not sure if he'll ever be anything. Laffey seems like a sure bet to have an ERA at 4.5 or so. Beyond that they have guys with potential that haven't shown they are ready for the majors. Bullpen looks iffy behind Perez. Joe Smith seems to have been figured out while Sipp and Perez will either strike out the side or give up a home run. I don't trust most of these guys but there is raw potential that could look great at times.

Cleveland still isn't ready and it would be a bit of a surprise if they get to 75 wins. They are so young and have so many question marks. A .500 record is doable if two starters emerge as decent (ERA of 4.2 or so), but I don't think the offense will do much of anything this year.