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Cleveland Indians (1-4) vs Kansas City Royals (3-2)

GAME 1 -|- April 13th, 4:10PM ET. -|- Derek Lowe (1-0) 0.00 ERA vs Luke Hochevar (1-0) 2.84 ERA

GAME 2 -|- April 14th, 7:10PM ET. -|- Jeanmar Gomez (0-0) 0.00 ERA vs Jonathan Sanchez (1-0) 3.60 ERA

GAME 3 -|- April 15th, 2:10PM ET. -|- Ubaldo Jimenez (0-0) 2.57 ERA vs Luis Mendoza (0-1) 1.59 ERA


PROJECTED INDIANS LINE-UP FOR THIS SERIES:
1.) Brantley
2.) Cabrera
3.) Choo
4.) Santana
5.) Hafner
6.) Duncan
7.) Kotchman
8.) Kipnis
9.) Hannahan

PROJECTED ROYALS LINE-UP FOR THIS SERIES:
1.) Gordon
2.) Escobar
3.) Hosmer
4.) Butler
5.) Francoeur
6.) Moustakas
7.) Cain
8.) Quintero
9.) Getz


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Hopefully I will be making changes to this tomorrow, other than the Royals record.
 
Hosmer is the real deal over there in KC.

Acta needs to play with the order a little bit.

1. Kipnis (provides better AB's than Brantey)
2. Asdrubal
3. Santana
4. Hafner
5. Choo
6. Duncan
7. Kotchman
8. Hannahan
9. Brantley
 
We don't play in warm weather until May.
 
Positives:

- Jack Hannahan (.313) and Shelley Duncan (.294) are hitting pretty well.
- The Tigers finally lost today
- The Indians scored 6 runs today
- The Tigers started 3-7 last season

That's all I have today :chuckles:

In all seriousness, hopefully they start to turn it around next series. The next 12 games are against Kansas City, Oakland, and Seattle, all teams expected to finish below .500. The Indians need to start bringing this thing together before they put themselves in a hole too deep to dig out of.
 
Assuming the Indians stay in this thing, I'd love to see them target Carlos Quentin in San Diego. Righty, hits lefties exceptionally well, knows the Central.
 
It's as if the Indians are only allowed to acquire left handed hitters.
 
We replace Sizemore's weak arm in CF with perhaps the only guy in baseball with a worse one
 
Damon wasn't terrible last year, and he's a better leadoff option than Brantley
 
He batted .261/.326/.418 with 16 homers, 73 RBI and 19 stolen bases in 150 games last year for the Rays and could be useful, anything better leading off than Brantley at this point will make me happy.
 
This make some people happy? Sure makes me excited.

I really like this move.

1) He's a left-handed hitter but actually hits LHP just as good as he does RHP. He'll form a nice platoon partner with Shelley Duncan.

2) He can lead off

3) By most accounts, he's a great "clubhouse guy" and a team leader, which I think this young team really needs.

VS RHP

CF-Brantley
SS-Cabrera
RF-Choo
C-Santana
DH-Hafner
LF-Duncan
1B-Kotchman
2B-Kipnis
3B-Hannahan

VS LHP

LF-Damon
SS-Cabrera
RF-Choo
C-Santana
DH-Hafner
1B-Kotchman
2B-Kipnis
3B-Hannahan
CF-Brantley
 
Damon isn't sitting vs. RHP if this move makes any sense.

Brantley would have to be getting sent down, or Cunningham DFA'd.

Maybe both.
 
2011 Stats:

Damon vs LHP - 166 AB, 6 HR, 28 RBI, .277 AVG, .354 OBP, .458 SLG, .812 OPS
Duncan vs RHP - 121 AB, 10 HR, 29 RBI, .273 AVG, .331 OBP, .587 SLG, .918 OPS
 

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