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Baseball Musings
January 24, 2008
Team Offense, Cleveland Indians

We continue to look at team offenses for 2008 with the Cleveland Indians.

Asbrubal Cabrera

Asbrubal Cabrera
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In 2007, the Indians scored 5.01 runs per game.

I plugged in a likely lineup to the Lineup Analysis Tool, using the Marcel the Monkey predictions from Tom Tango. The lineups rate as follows:

  • Best: 5.67 runs per game
  • Given: 5.60 runs per game
  • Worst: 5.43 runs per game

That's a huge boost for a team that basically stood pat over the winter. One big boost will be Asdrubal Cabrera. Josh Barfield was really terrible in 2007, and the Indians took off after inserting Cabrera into the lineup. Another big boost comes from Hafner returning to his former self after a down season and a continued power increase from Grady Sizemore. Scoring 5.6 runs per game would have landed the Indians in second place in the majors in 2007. Also, their likely lineup is even with Detroit's likely lineup. This should be a great division fight between the Tigers and the Indians this summer.

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Posted by David Pinto at 03:42 PM | Team Evaluation | TrackBack (0)
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