Indians Spring Training Preview
I lead off sbnation.com's Spring Training Preview series with the team (according to Vegas odds) least likely to win the World Series.
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The Nats have better odds than us? This just makes me sad – and it makes me want to go to Vegas and put down $20 on the Tribe (cause you never know).
I just wanted to believe.
Yeah I sort of spit out my coffee when I read that as well. I’m pretty sure we aren’t going to be the worst team in baseball, though I suppose I can’t say I’ll be surprised if it turns out that way.
by jakesinger777 on Mar 1, 2010 7:57 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah, I was in Vegas last week, and just had to put 10 bucks down on the Tribe to win it all at 100-1.
by supermarioelia on Mar 1, 2010 8:56 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Surprisingly, the Venetian would not accept 10 loonies as compensation.
by supermarioelia on Mar 2, 2010 10:10 PM EST up reply actions
Because of the picture at the head of the article I am now an Austin Kearns fan.
by The Grimace on Mar 1, 2010 8:39 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Soon, I’ll make my trip to Reno to place my annual bets on the upcoming season. For me, it makes the baseball season a little more interesting. The drive is really pretty behind Mt Lassen and the High desert; snow on both sides of the road and huge meadows. I always bet the tribe to win the division, pennant, and world series. I never bet against them, nor do I bet allot. I’ll also place wagers on other divisions based odds and how good I think they are. I picked up Colorado in 2007, but for the most part, I throw away allot of stubs. Anyone got any hot tips? I see the Cardinals right now, perhaps the Giants…. looking for ideas….
I’d say Tampa Bay or (on a whole other level) Oakland. Perhaps the Brewers, if their rotation looks healthy.
Oh, and I was about to ask where you buy one such table.
by jakesinger777 on Mar 2, 2010 8:15 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Brown, Jordan is an example of this.
by cleveland teamer on Mar 2, 2010 5:29 PM EST up reply actions
Current rankings for Most Likely To Be Traded By August:
1. Peralta
2. Westbrook (#2 only based on further injury issues)
3. Wood (I think well behind the top two)
4. Brown
5. Marson
6. Branyan
7. Marte (not if Peralta leaves)
8. Hafner + $$$
9. Kearns
10. Redmond (if not Marson)
11. JLewis
12. Grilli/Rivera
i think marson is high. also, too far up on the list.
toregas will be the catcher for columbus for the next 8 years unless he changes agents to boras.
You may be right, it’s just a question of whether Marson is good enough to start for another team, which should mean he’s much more valuable to that team than he is to ours.
That’s a tortured sentence. You would think I could do better since I made the same argument about Shoppach a couple of years ago.
Yeah, Marson feels like an offseason move, and not even necessarily this year. Why would we trade him when he’s such a good, cheap backup for Santana for a few years? Recent history suggests that we don’t make that trade.
Again with the blind optimism.
Again with the irrational love for mediocre catchers.
Again with the jargon.
by Jay on Mar 3, 2010 6:58 AM EST up reply actions
High OBP catchers just clog up the basepaths. Especially if the slugging percentage is lower than the OBP. See John Mizerock and Butch Wynegar.
I’m looking forward to seeing a catcher take a base on balls rather than swinging wildly at a pitch six feet out of the strike zone.
We won’t know how terrible Marson looks in a slump until he actually has one. I suspect that I will agree with you, though.
by Jay on Mar 5, 2010 1:25 AM EST up reply actions
Also! Kearns sucks. He needs to show he doesn’t.
< / guy who wants LaPorta to play 150 games in LF >
For better or worse, that is also vintage Candy Maldonado.
by APV on Mar 3, 2010 5:36 PM EST up reply actions
Not convinced. There are lots of realistic scenarios in which his tenuous value craters. Any dip in performance or health and Brown becomes untradable, I think. Or else only tradable in the Vinny Pestano sense.
He has all his option years, he’s cheap. I know we like to joke about his batting average, but I swear that teams will look at his OPS and take a flier on him. I think we’ve pushed the Jordan-Brown-is-horrible angle too far.
Brian “It Only Takes One” Sabean.
"Nobody ever thinks, 'Hey, maybe I’m actually an idiot.'" - Jay
by woodsmeister on Mar 3, 2010 12:29 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
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