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Season Predictions Warmup

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I think we've all gotten a chance to get a feel for how most of the players are doing in spring training. While its a tad early to make informed season predictions based on the early part of spring training, lets get some of our informed predictions out in the open. I'm sure Jay or Ryan will have a 'Season Predictions' thread up before the start of the season.

p.s: Here are last year's predictions, just for reference.

Here are some of my 'warm up' predictions....

(1) Gutierrez will uncork atleast 25 bombs this season.

(2) 'The Adam Miller Show' gets back on track in the minors, resulting in a July callup and a move to the 'pen.

(3) Asdrubal develops more power than people expect of him (0.450 SLG or higher in the second half).

(4) Lee rebounds (4.40 ERA), giving the Indians a solid season.

* - Long term, I see Asdrubal as a 15-20HR SS with excellent on-base skills.

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Re: Season Predictions Warmup
Oddly enough, I missed my 'gimme' prediction last season....

Additional Predictions

    * Garko puts together a fine season with 25HR and 100RBIs

    * Martinez shows improved power boosting his HR total past 25

    * Barfield has a rough year with a sub .300 OBP

    * Trot Nixon goes on the DL (I need to get one right too)

by crazymoloh on Mar 18, 2008 1:52 PM EDT   0 recs

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Jeff Stevens will get the Save in the final game of the World Series.

by Brick. on Mar 18, 2008 2:00 PM EDT   0 recs

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Just to be sure, we're assuming Jeff Stevens doesn't get traded, right?

by crazymoloh on Mar 18, 2008 2:03 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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of course.  For the Indians.

Also! Booo Jim Thome!

by Brick. on Mar 18, 2008 2:06 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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Lee gets dealt for an AA third baseman.  Dellucci gets hurt - DL > 30 days.  Masa's a monster and replaces JoBo as our closer.  Bellancourt struggles early then finds his groove when the weather warms up.  Grady goes from star to superstar.  Vic cools a little.  CC shines but Carmona ERA approaches 3.00.  Marte at third, Jhonny at SS, ACab at second form a better than expected defensive infield in the second half.  After tearing it up at Buffalo Barfield gets called up to replace Carroll who's on the DL.

Tribe wins 92 and just gets by the Tigers.  

THIS IS THE YEAR! WORLD SERIES WIN OVER THE METS IN 6!

Whew - I'm exhausted from the warm-up.  What'll I do for the real predictions thread.

"the most vehement Yankee-hating guy I know" - Jay

by mauichuck on Mar 18, 2008 2:23 PM EDT   0 recs

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THIS IS THE YEAR! WORLD SERIES WIN OVER THE METS IN 6!

tearing santana a new one a couple times like the the good old days.

by Brick. on Mar 18, 2008 2:28 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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Giving him the old Kevin Brown treatment, eh?  Only this time, there ain't gonna be no game seven ...

by Jay on Mar 18, 2008 2:44 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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Best part of that prediction, with the WS in my backyard, I find a way to score tix to one of the final games at Shea!
"It's hard to win when you don't score." Cliff Lee, 9/28/05.

by Harry Doyle on Mar 18, 2008 4:54 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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Lee gets dealt for an AA third baseman.

Sad that you started off with this boner, because the rest of it was totally plausible.  You picked possibly the least likely position/level combo that we'd acquire.

by Jay on Mar 18, 2008 2:42 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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I just smell a rat with Lee right now.  Wedge's been pimpin' his performance waaaaaay too much.  Makes me think they're tryin' to increase his trade value, plus I think they're all tired of his act.  As to the 3rd base thing, I'm pretty sure we won't get a pitcher back, sure as hell don't need any more outfield prospects so maybe a catcher or infielder.  I'm thinkin' we may need some insurance at third.
"the most vehement Yankee-hating guy I know" - Jay

by mauichuck on Mar 18, 2008 3:57 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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Insurance at third? I'm not sure how much insurance a Double-A guy, or maybe I'm not sure what you mean by insurance. We'll have Wes Hodges (3B-SS, 23), Jared Goedert (2B-3B, 23) and Beau Mills (3B-1B, 21) all in Double-A this season, and probably Matt Whitney (1B-3B, 24) as well. So whatever it is you're thinking we could use, I don't think it's a third baseman in Double-A.

by Jay on Mar 19, 2008 1:11 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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Okay, here's something weird ... some guy copy-pasted the above Comment into a cleveland.com comment here.

by Jay on Mar 19, 2008 11:15 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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Yeah, that was me. I'd have credited you, but it's not worth it on a crap-forum like that. I figured somebody would have seen it eventually, but that was quick, maestro. I just wanted to enlighten the unwashed masses, you know? Sorry if it offends.
Sportsman of the year, 1991

by BostonWahoo on Mar 19, 2008 11:18 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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I don't mind, especially as you're a regular, it was just weird seeing it.

And I disagree with your point.  Despite the depth at Double-A of possible 3B solutions, we do not have a 3B solution for 2009, and possibly not 2010 either, if we let Marte go.  None of those guys are likely to rocket through to the majors, as Mills and Whitney are defensively fringy at that position, and we don't know how quickly Hodges and Goedert will develop.  These guys are just starting Double-A, not just finishing.

Even if Marte somehow works out this season, we don't have much depth behind him for 2009.  We are going to continue overpaying a declining veteran to fill that hole for 2009-2010, and the only way we might get out of it is to commit to Marte.

by Jay on Mar 19, 2008 3:03 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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OK, so maybe I left and "A" out.  We trade Lee for a AAA third baseman.
"the most vehement Yankee-hating guy I know" - Jay

by mauichuck on Mar 19, 2008 3:11 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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What we actually need is a guy around 30 with a year or two left on his deal.  Figgins, Iwamura, Beltre.  

If the Indians really won't give Marte a shot, an interesting move would be a straight swap with Pittsburgh for Jose Bautista.  He'll be in his walk year by the time they're contending, and he's okay but definitely not anything special.  The Pirates of course can well afford to give Marte 1000 plate appearances to see if he can figure it out.

by Jay on Mar 19, 2008 4:20 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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If we got Chone Figgins I'd put a load in my SerenityNows.  Speed, contact, smart, heads up runner.  I haven't seen him play too much defense, but I know he can play every infield position, and some outfield too.  I think he would be a great addition to the team.
Sportsman of the year, 1991

by BostonWahoo on Mar 19, 2008 4:23 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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Which is why the Angels won't part with him.
-Erik

by drerikbrady on Mar 19, 2008 4:45 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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Problem is that one of the Pirates' only good prospects, Neil Walker, is a 3b, having been converted last year from catcher. So I don't see why they'd be that keen on Marte.
ken from alexandria

by ken from alexandria on Mar 19, 2008 6:16 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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While you were enlightening that unwashed mass, did it occur to you to school him on his harebrained idea to move AstroCab to third to make room for Barf at second?  

With ideas like that floating though his excuse for a head, I doubt the concept of depth at 3B in AA could even be understood.  Christ, he may not even know that the Indians have a AA team (even though he probably lives in Akron).

Jay's insights were wasted in that mess of a sight.

"It's hard to win when you don't score." Cliff Lee, 9/28/05.

by Harry Doyle on Mar 19, 2008 6:48 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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Byrd is out of the Indians rotation by mid-July and possibly out of the league by season's end...I'll explain why I think this later in the week.

by APV on Mar 18, 2008 2:27 PM EDT   0 recs

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Perhaps because past transgressions will prevent the league from going out on a limb to give him an hGH which he'll need to overcome his pituitary deficiency?  He'll whither and crumble like a little old man and an icy walk?
Sportsman of the year, 1991

by BostonWahoo on Mar 18, 2008 2:37 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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Uhhh...

That is supposed to read "...to give him an hGH waiver which he'll..."

Sportsman of the year, 1991

by BostonWahoo on Mar 18, 2008 2:46 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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It's got nothing (or very little, anyway) to do with HGH...like I said I'll try to put together my thoughts later in the week when I'm not as busy.

Also...I'll be joining the Boston community come August.  Any suggestions?

by APV on Mar 18, 2008 2:50 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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I'm guessing the Rapture is scheduled for some time in July then?

by mrich on Mar 18, 2008 2:52 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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That depends on your opinion of Boston...or of me...

by APV on Mar 18, 2008 2:54 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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Heh, joining the community in what way?  There are a couple of guys besides me that live out here, but I never got a chance to meet up with them last year.

You can email me at mattcole3 on gmail and we can talk.  I have lots of sports bars that I frequent, though there isn't reall much of an out-of-town baseball scene here.  Football is much, much different.  Thank god.

Sportsman of the year, 1991

by BostonWahoo on Mar 18, 2008 3:12 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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Tenure-track teaching job...I'll probably be living just outside of Boston next year

by APV on Mar 18, 2008 3:24 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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What school are you going to be teaching at?  I'm in college about 15 minutes outside of downtown..Maybe you'll be my professor next year?
I'm not superstitious, I'm just a little stitious.

by jakesinger777 on Mar 18, 2008 4:19 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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Unless "jake" is a nickname, I don't think so.  I'll be at Wellesley.

by APV on Mar 18, 2008 4:21 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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That's awesome - I'm about 15 minutes away at Brandeis, and already trying to get tickets for the tribe games in September
I'm not superstitious, I'm just a little stitious.

by jakesinger777 on Mar 18, 2008 4:25 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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For what it's worth, I usually have good luck with craigslist for the Tribe games.  If you troll long enough you can find some moneybags from the burbs who just wants to ditch his tickets for face value.

A couple of years ago I saw the series where Fausto imploded.  The balls, however, rained like mortars on Landsdown St. and the Mass Pike.  The getaway game, I had bleacher seats that I upgraded for like $30 to get into the lower grandstands.  It was from here that I saw Papi own Fausto.

Sportsman of the year, 1991

by BostonWahoo on Mar 18, 2008 4:39 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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I had the same luck with boston.craigslist.  Put in the time and check it consistently, and someone will unload tickets at face value.  You've got to be quick though.  They are usually guys with corporate tickets, who don't want to risk scalping them.

As a last resort, if you show up to the park with $45-50, you're pretty likely to get a seat.  (not for the Yankees, of course).

by dgcambridge on Mar 18, 2008 6:42 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

+1 - congrats, APV! :-)
May the Tribe be great in 2008! :-)

by indiansfan on Mar 19, 2008 6:17 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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I was referring to Byrd's leaving the Indians in mid-season, not you moving to Boston. Believe me, there are few places on earth I'd equate with heaven, and Boston sure ain't one of them.

by mrich on Mar 19, 2008 3:31 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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I'd eat some antifreeze meatballs if I were you.

by JulioBernazard on Mar 18, 2008 3:47 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I apologize
... for the ageist slur I used in my prior post.

Chuck, sir, I meant you no malfeasance.  If you're ever in Boston, the replacement hip and 4:30 Prime Rib special are on me.  :)

Sportsman of the year, 1991

by BostonWahoo on Mar 18, 2008 3:14 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Re: I apologize
My hips are fine, as well as the rest of my joints sonny, so I'll pass on the offer.  However, I will challenge you to an arm wrestling contest next time I'm in Boston.  

BTW, my in-laws have a summer place in Harwich, so I'm up there at least once a year.

"the most vehement Yankee-hating guy I know" - Jay

by mauichuck on Mar 18, 2008 3:54 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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Sweet.  You can continue on your coast-to-coast tour of LGTers.
Sportsman of the year, 1991

by BostonWahoo on Mar 18, 2008 3:57 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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Chuck's been everywhere.  

Just don't get him started about the time he worked picking coffee beans in Guatemala or his time in that barbershop quartet in Skokie, Illinois.  

"It's hard to win when you don't score." Cliff Lee, 9/28/05.

by Harry Doyle on Mar 18, 2008 4:59 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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Does he know Kip Diskin?  Big guy.  Fat.  Like orca-fat.
Sportsman of the year, 1991

by BostonWahoo on Mar 18, 2008 5:09 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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Yeah, the baritone.  He was so stressed in the morning...
"It's hard to win when you don't score." Cliff Lee, 9/28/05.

by Harry Doyle on Mar 18, 2008 6:10 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Re: I apologize
Did I tell you I actually know a guy named Kobayashi?  True story.

If you two keep it up I'm gonna ground you both for a week and take your iPods away.

"the most vehement Yankee-hating guy I know" - Jay

by mauichuck on Mar 18, 2008 10:36 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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Chuck, could you stay after class please.  We need to talk.
-Erik

by drerikbrady on Mar 19, 2008 6:48 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Re: I apologize
I justed looked it up.  There's ~120,000 people on Maui and ~40,000 listings in the White Pages.  There's 32 Kobayashi's out here including a cosmetic dentist, a optomitrist and a florist.  There's only 4 Brady's listed - none of them doctors.  

You can't live in Maui for any length of time and not know somebody with the family name Kobayashi.  But you can probably escape all the Bradys.

"the most vehement Yankee-hating guy I know" - Jay

by mauichuck on Mar 19, 2008 1:21 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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Why did I know you knew a guy named Kobayashi.

How can we be sure you're not Keyser Soze?

"It's hard to win when you don't score." Cliff Lee, 9/28/05.

by Harry Doyle on Mar 19, 2008 10:14 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Re: Season Predictions Warmup
Miller and Aubrey have a brawl in the Bison locker room, lasting five minutes until the room is littered with detached body parts.

by dgcambridge on Mar 18, 2008 2:48 PM EDT   0 recs

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For Aubrey, the over/under is 40 seconds.

by CaptainEasy on Mar 18, 2008 8:11 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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One more quick prediction...last season we hit 178 HRs.  This season I think we'll hit a hair over 200.

by APV on Mar 18, 2008 2:56 PM EDT   0 recs

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  1. Marte is actually good
  2. It snows in April, but there are no cancellations
  3. LGT starts an online fight with a different blog than Lookout Landing
3a. Jay started the online fight
  1. Grady Sizemore finishes top 3 in MVP voting(would like to predict MVP, but don't trust MVP voters)
  2. Really liked Adam's prediction on Byrd
  3. Fausto doesn;t have quite the same numbers as last year, but it still awesome

by Roger Dorn on Mar 18, 2008 3:12 PM EDT   0 recs

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In my defense, Rog, I think you'll find that I don't start fights so much as I escalate them.

by Jay on Mar 19, 2008 1:12 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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Haha, I am with you. To be perfectly fair, you are really just calling out weak arguments, which a counterparty that doesn't know you tends to take very personally.

by Roger Dorn on Mar 19, 2008 10:25 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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  1. Laffey joins the rotation at some point, furthering our groundball goodness.
  2. Grady has an MVP type year, and I start drinking 40's of PBR after every jack to celebrate his surprising run towards 40 home runs.
  3. Gutz is not as good as we think. (Then again, I recall a thread over the off-season with our respective predictions for him and they were less than wonderful).
  4. Hafner returns to pre 07-form.
  5. Barfield doesn't up his walk rate, nears bust territory.
  6. Marte does up his walk rate, and is the answer at 3B.
  7. Some young kids (Stevens, Miller?) emerge and become a force in the pen by July.

8,921,764,359) The Rays win the AL East on the back of Scott Kazmir, James Shields and Matt Garza.
Sizemore-Shapiro 2008. The Official Red Bull of Let's Go Tribe Game Threads.

by Gradyforpresident on Mar 18, 2008 3:19 PM EDT   0 recs

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Last year the typical right fielder hit .288/.359/.465 with 19 home runs.  It's the highest OPS (.824) of any position for 2007.  As a group so far, we're projecting Frankie G to hit roughly .273/.329/.471 with 20 home runs (again, I said roughly).  This means an OPS of exactly .800 for 2008.

From the last predictions thread.

by nickjs21 on Mar 19, 2008 7:12 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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I'll think about it and post my actual predictions later, but I just want to comment on a few things about last year's BP predictions. I can't believe A) how many people (any people) picked Hafner to be MVP and B) how many people picked Dice-K to be Cy. Seems really funny now with the benefit of hindsight.
Burn on, big river, burn on...

by Turkmenbashi on Mar 18, 2008 3:25 PM EDT   0 recs

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  1.  Agreed on Gutierrez

  2.  Wedge doesn't play Marte consistently enough for anyone to get a read on him.

  3.  Dellucci hits around .250, but they play him anyway.

  4.  Fultz is gone by mid-season.

  5.  Midges attempt to eat JoBo, but are unsuccessful.  He remains the Indians closer.

by peter m on Mar 18, 2008 3:46 PM EDT   0 recs

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Jhonny will have the most homeruns on the team
Garko will have the highest batting average
Carmona will have the most wins
Betancourt will spend a considerable amount of time on the DL
Casey Blake gets 400 AB's
Jamey Carroll will not be on this team come September

by Toxicadam on Mar 18, 2008 3:59 PM EDT   0 recs

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Beau Mills tears up Akron and then Buffalo and earns a September call-up.

Marte rots on the bench.

MLB rules that Casey Blake's beard is sentient enough to warrant its own roster spot, forcing the Tribe to trade Dellucci to the Mets for a bag of balls and a case of Mountain Dew.  Later in the season, Casey's beard skips town with Travis Hafner's camouflage pants and is never seen again.

Free Andy Marte!

Pronk Needs You

by woodsmeister on Mar 18, 2008 4:06 PM EDT   0 recs

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"Casey's beard skips town with Travis Hafner's camouflage pants and is never seen again."

Hey, that's the whole point of camouflage pants, right?

ken from alexandria

by ken from alexandria on Mar 18, 2008 4:34 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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Do I even need to say it?  To hide his Ground-Balls...

by APV on Mar 18, 2008 4:36 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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Apparently there were no camouflage pants in the late, great Dodgertown. According to the AP's Ben Walker, "In an era when spring training has become big business, this complex was more like baseball's petting zoo, where players were encouraged to chat with fans and sign their balls."
ken from alexandria

by ken from alexandria on Mar 18, 2008 5:27 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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Two predictions:

  1. Grady will have a MVP season (e.g. .330 BA, 35 HRs, 140 R), but he will not get the MVP as he will not have enough RBIs, and he plays for a Cleveland team.

  2. Marte will be traded for his true value (peanuts) before June.

Predictions from last year

My two big predictions

   1. Grady will hit under .265. No, this is not due to his spring, but to the fact that the players I hope he most resembles (Bonds, Snider) both had an off year their third year (Bonds hit .248!), before coming back with monster 4th seasons.

   2. C.C. will finish 1 or 2 in the Cy Young voting. He is due for a monster year.

 

by oxforddave on Mar 18, 2008 4:35 PM EDT   0 recs

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I'm just not sure Grady makes contact enough to hit .330.  I could see a crazy MVP OBP of .415 or something, but I'd be fine with .309, .310.

by nickjs21 on Mar 19, 2008 7:15 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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Choo is a starter by mid-July.

Garko will be traded.

Borkowski gets hurt, and Jensen Lewis assumes closing duties.

-Erik

by drerikbrady on Mar 18, 2008 4:42 PM EDT   0 recs

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Not Gonnie Garko!
Sportsman of the year, 1991

by BostonWahoo on Mar 18, 2008 4:49 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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I think next year is closer to peak-value Garko trade time...

by APV on Mar 18, 2008 4:50 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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Do you think that bears any relation to shifting Jordan Brown to 1B full-time, or could he just have been that bad in LF? I'm really curious to see what the organization will do if Brown, Garko, and Aubrey all hit like they're supposed to this season.

PS - I'm not here yet. This is somebody else.

by fleerdon on Mar 19, 2008 11:04 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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Who are you thinking would fill in at 1st?  Victor?  Brown?  Mills? Mulhern?

by dgcambridge on Mar 18, 2008 4:59 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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In the short term - Casey Blake
In the long term - Michael Aubrey (maybe J. Brown)

Teams in need of 1B...

Short Term:

  1. Angels
  2. Texas
  3. Baltimore
  4. KC
  5. SF

Next Year:
  1. Braves (Tex leaves)
  2. Mets (Delgado falls apart/leaves)
  3. Yankees (assuming they don't sign Tex)

by crazymoloh on Mar 18, 2008 5:14 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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In a pinch, Blake.  But I'm thinking if Choo gets back into the mix, Blake makes one too many in cast of thousands in the outfield.  His trade value is less than that of Garko and we seem (at this point) to be committed to Marte at third.  Victor can also play some first, so I have to wonder if Garko isn't the odd man out.
-Erik

by drerikbrady on Mar 18, 2008 9:56 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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  1. CC wins 18 games. Carmona spends time on the DL.
  2. Byrd will not be on the team by Sep.
  3. Westbrook will be outstanding. Approaching his 2004 season stats.
  4. Lee will win 12 games.
  5. Miller will need surgery.
  6. Laffey and Sowers fill in OK for Carmona and Byrd.
  7. JoBo blows up. Masa gets hammered. Fultz doesn't last the full year.
  8. Both Raffys, Mastny and Lewis save the BP from total disaster. Slocum and Stevens pitch for the ML team.
  9. Martinez puts up similar numbers to 2007.
  10. Garko explodes at the plate.
  11. Cabrera has a rough stretch but does very well the 2nd half.
  12. Peralta regresses in the field but puts up better numbers hitting.
  13. Marte takes over 3B and has some clutch HR.
  14. Dellucci sucks for months and finally in July Wedge sets him down.
  15. Francisco becomes the fulltime LF in July.
  16. Gutz improves his numbers vs RHP.
  17. Carroll hits .190.
  18. Grady blows past Granderson to become the best offensive CF in the AL. Huge season.
  19. Choo is traded. It should have been Dellucci.
  20. Crowe, Brown, Weglarz have huge seasons in the minors. Barton does well for StL.

by ronh on Mar 18, 2008 5:12 PM EDT   0 recs