Season Predictions Warmup
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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* 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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by Brick. on Mar 18, 2008 2:00 PM EDT 0 recs
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by crazymoloh on
Mar 18, 2008 2:03 PM EDT
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Also! Booo Jim Thome!
by Brick. on
Mar 18, 2008 2:06 PM EDT
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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.
by mauichuck on Mar 18, 2008 2:23 PM EDT 0 recs
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tearing santana a new one a couple times like the the good old days.
by Brick. on
Mar 18, 2008 2:28 PM EDT
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by Jay on
Mar 18, 2008 2:44 PM EDT
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by Harry Doyle on
Mar 18, 2008 4:54 PM EDT
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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
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by mauichuck on
Mar 18, 2008 3:57 PM EDT
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by Jay on
Mar 19, 2008 1:11 AM EDT
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by Jay on
Mar 19, 2008 11:15 AM EDT
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by BostonWahoo on
Mar 19, 2008 11:18 AM EDT
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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
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by mauichuck on
Mar 19, 2008 3:11 PM EDT
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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
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Mar 19, 2008 4:23 PM EDT
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by drerikbrady on
Mar 19, 2008 4:45 PM EDT
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by ken from alexandria on
Mar 19, 2008 6:16 PM EDT
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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.
by Harry Doyle on
Mar 19, 2008 6:48 PM EDT
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by APV on Mar 18, 2008 2:27 PM EDT 0 recs
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by BostonWahoo on
Mar 18, 2008 2:37 PM EDT
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That is supposed to read "...to give him an hGH waiver which he'll..."
by BostonWahoo on
Mar 18, 2008 2:46 PM EDT
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Also...I'll be joining the Boston community come August. Any suggestions?
by APV on
Mar 18, 2008 2:50 PM EDT
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by mrich on
Mar 18, 2008 2:52 PM EDT
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by APV on
Mar 18, 2008 2:54 PM EDT
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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.
by BostonWahoo on
Mar 18, 2008 3:12 PM EDT
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Mar 18, 2008 4:19 PM EDT
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by APV on
Mar 18, 2008 4:21 PM EDT
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by jakesinger777 on
Mar 18, 2008 4:25 PM EDT
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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.
by BostonWahoo on
Mar 18, 2008 4:39 PM EDT
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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
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by macasson on
Mar 18, 2008 10:38 PM EDT
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+1 - congrats, APV! :-)
by indiansfan on
Mar 19, 2008 6:17 AM EDT
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by mrich on
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by JulioBernazard on
Mar 18, 2008 3:47 PM EDT
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I apologize
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. :)
by BostonWahoo on
Mar 18, 2008 3:14 PM EDT
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BTW, my in-laws have a summer place in Harwich, so I'm up there at least once a year.
by mauichuck on
Mar 18, 2008 3:54 PM EDT
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by BostonWahoo on
Mar 18, 2008 3:57 PM EDT
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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.
by Harry Doyle on
Mar 18, 2008 4:59 PM EDT
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by BostonWahoo on
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by Harry Doyle on
Mar 18, 2008 6:10 PM EDT
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If you two keep it up I'm gonna ground you both for a week and take your iPods away.
by mauichuck on
Mar 18, 2008 10:36 PM EDT
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by drerikbrady on
Mar 19, 2008 6:48 AM EDT
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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.
by mauichuck on
Mar 19, 2008 1:21 PM EDT
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How can we be sure you're not Keyser Soze?
by Harry Doyle on
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by dgcambridge on Mar 18, 2008 2:48 PM EDT 0 recs
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by CaptainEasy on
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by APV on Mar 18, 2008 2:56 PM EDT 0 recs
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- Marte is actually good
- It snows in April, but there are no cancellations
- LGT starts an online fight with a different blog than Lookout Landing
- Grady Sizemore finishes top 3 in MVP voting(would like to predict MVP, but don't trust MVP voters)
- Really liked Adam's prediction on Byrd
- 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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by Jay on
Mar 19, 2008 1:12 AM EDT
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by Roger Dorn on
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- Laffey joins the rotation at some point, furthering our groundball goodness.
- 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.
- 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).
- Hafner returns to pre 07-form.
- Barfield doesn't up his walk rate, nears bust territory.
- Marte does up his walk rate, and is the answer at 3B.
- Some young kids (Stevens, Miller?) emerge and become a force in the pen by July.
by Gradyforpresident on Mar 18, 2008 3:19 PM EDT 0 recs
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From the last predictions thread.
by nickjs21 on
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by Turkmenbashi on Mar 18, 2008 3:25 PM EDT 0 recs
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by Bernie19Kosar on Mar 18, 2008 3:42 PM EDT 0 recs
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- Agreed on Gutierrez
- Wedge doesn't play Marte consistently enough for anyone to get a read on him.
- Dellucci hits around .250, but they play him anyway.
- Fultz is gone by mid-season.
- 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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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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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.
by woodsmeister on Mar 18, 2008 4:06 PM EDT 0 recs
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Hey, that's the whole point of camouflage pants, right?
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Mar 18, 2008 4:34 PM EDT
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- 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.
- Marte will be traded for his true value (peanuts) before June.
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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by nickjs21 on
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Garko will be traded.
Borkowski gets hurt, and Jensen Lewis assumes closing duties.
by drerikbrady on Mar 18, 2008 4:42 PM EDT 0 recs
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by BostonWahoo on
Mar 18, 2008 4:49 PM EDT
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by APV on
Mar 18, 2008 4:50 PM EDT
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PS - I'm not here yet. This is somebody else.
by fleerdon on
Mar 19, 2008 11:04 AM EDT
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In the long term - Michael Aubrey (maybe J. Brown)
Teams in need of 1B...
Short Term:
- Angels
- Texas
- Baltimore
- KC
- SF
- Braves (Tex leaves)
- Mets (Delgado falls apart/leaves)
- Yankees (assuming they don't sign Tex)
by crazymoloh on
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- CC wins 18 games. Carmona spends time on the DL.
- Byrd will not be on the team by Sep.
- Westbrook will be outstanding. Approaching his 2004 season stats.
- Lee will win 12 games.
- Miller will need surgery.
- Laffey and Sowers fill in OK for Carmona and Byrd.
- JoBo blows up. Masa gets hammered. Fultz doesn't last the full year.
- Both Raffys, Mastny and Lewis save the BP from total disaster. Slocum and Stevens pitch for the ML team.
- Martinez puts up similar numbers to 2007.
- Garko explodes at the plate.
- Cabrera has a rough stretch but does very well the 2nd half.
- Peralta regresses in the field but puts up better numbers hitting.
- Marte takes over 3B and has some clutch HR.
- Dellucci sucks for months and finally in July Wedge sets him down.
- Francisco becomes the fulltime LF in July.
- Gutz improves his numbers vs RHP.
- Carroll hits .190.
- Grady blows past Granderson to become the best offensive CF in the AL. Huge season.
- Choo is traded. It should have been Dellucci.
- 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


