Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
June 19, 2008
Interleague Indians

The Indians lost to the Colorado Rockies Wednesday 4-2 as Colorado gets another well pitched game by Jeff Francis. The Indians are now 2-6 in interleague play, the worst record in the AL. That's costing them in the division. All four of their AL Central opponents won on Wednesday. Overall, Chicago and Kansas City are 6-2 against the NL, Detroit 6-3 and Minnesota 5-3.

The Indians may be the biggest recipients of random bad luck over the last four seasons. In 2005 they arguably played better than the White Sox, but couldn't defeat Chicago in the last week of the season. They could not build on their 2005 success, and fell back under .500 in 2006. In 2007, they appeared to put it all together, then blew a 3-1 lead to the Red Sox in the ALCS. Once again, they're following a good but unlucky season with poor play. I often wonder why Wedge never seems to be on the hot seat.

Update: Waiting for Next Year is not happy with Wedge.


Posted by David Pinto at 08:42 AM | Team Evaluation | TrackBack (0)
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Sorry but what does playing poorly have to do with luck? They lost big games so they were unlucky? Then they regress so they're unlucky? What exactly does any of that have to do with luck?

Posted by: Bandit at June 19, 2008 09:35 AM
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