macbdog
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Well of course he will be they traded him.And be on some other team next year.
Well of course he will be they traded him.And be on some other team next year.
The Indians should have a very deep rotation next season.
Bieber, Plesac, Carrasco are the top three and then you have Civale, McKenzie, Quantrill, Allen and Moss fighting for two spots.
Convert 1-2 of the guys who don't win rotation spots into relief guys, get Clase back and possibly bring up some of the young guys who weren't able to pitch this year to add to Karinchak, Wittgren and Maton and you should have a deep bullpen even without Hand.
The lineup... who knows. I think Santana, Lindor and Hernandez are all gone. Naquin and DeShields *should* be gone. Mercado they could maybe try and get right because of his defensive skills. Luplow is a fine cheap platoon option.
C: Roberto Perez/Austin Hedges platoon
1B: Josh Naylor
2B: Jose Ramirez
SS: ?
3B: ?
LF: Jordan Luplow
CF: ?
RF: Franmil Reyes
DH: ?
A whole bunch of holes to fill and not a whole lot of intriguing options near the majors to fill them depending on how you feel about guys like Bobby Bradley, Jake Bauers and Daniel Johnson.
I'm going to be miserable not having you around to disagree with every single one of my posts while citing small sample size almost every time. Don't work too hard and check back in when possible.Tough to end it that way with basically every pitcher having their worst results of the season.
Crazy game, baseball is.
Still, I enjoyed all the wins along the way, and talking baseball with you guys.
It will be an interesting offseason, but the team is certainly set up well moving forward.
I will probably be more of a lurker for the foreseeable future. Landed my dream job last week, and it’s going to be incredibly time consuming.
Love all you miserable people
I agree with this and would suggest trading for Clint Frazier to DH (I hear he's an awful outfielder). If he can't get playing time with the Yankees we'll take him back.The Indians should have a very deep rotation next season.
Bieber, Plesac, Carrasco are the top three and then you have Civale, McKenzie, Quantrill, Allen and Moss fighting for two spots.
Convert 1-2 of the guys who don't win rotation spots into relief guys, get Clase back and possibly bring up some of the young guys who weren't able to pitch this year to add to Karinchak, Wittgren and Maton and you should have a deep bullpen even without Hand.
The lineup... who knows. I think Santana, Lindor and Hernandez are all gone. Naquin and DeShields *should* be gone. Mercado they could maybe try and get right because of his defensive skills. Luplow is a fine cheap platoon option.
C: Roberto Perez/Austin Hedges platoon
1B: Josh Naylor
2B: Jose Ramirez
SS: ?
3B: ?
LF: Jordan Luplow
CF: ?
RF: Franmil Reyes
DH: ?
A whole bunch of holes to fill and not a whole lot of intriguing options near the majors to fill them depending on how you feel about guys like Bobby Bradley, Jake Bauers and Daniel Johnson.
Yeah, the Indians' pitchers were getting squeezed and that non-strike call to Urshela was egregious. After starting with fastballs Karinchak threw his first curve and it broke so much the umpire totally missed the call. It was a strike above the knees and the three-dimensional graphic showed the entire ball was well within the zone. The announcers just stared at it speechlessly. I think somebody mumbled something like, "He got a break there". It was embarrassing and it may have cost the Indians four runs. (By the way, I love that three-dimensional graphic. Wish they had it every game).Well another season has gone by and I figured they would lose tonight the way yesterday went, but honestly the amount of walks in today's game really stated the umps was the hitters friend and the Indians had multiple guys who they legitimately struck out that the ump didn't call out. Hand had a strikeout in that 9th inning, and Urshela was struck out before he hit the HR. Glad to see the fight in the guys especially the pinch hit from Luplow.
I'd platoon Johnson in center with Mercado and play Luplow every day. He's starting to show he can hit right-handed pitching and the more he faces the better he'll get.Absolutely. Both he and DeShields should be non-tendered. Daniel Johnson needs to be given a chance to platoon with Luplow in RF.
I’m coming around to Luplow too although his August sure tried my patience.I'd platoon Johnson in center with Mercado and play Luplow every day. He's starting to show he can hit right-handed pitching and the more he faces the better he'll get.
Tough to end it that way with basically every pitcher having their worst results of the season.
Crazy game, baseball is.
Still, I enjoyed all the wins along the way, and talking baseball with you guys.
It will be an interesting offseason, but the team is certainly set up well moving forward.
I will probably be more of a lurker for the foreseeable future. Landed my dream job last week, and it’s going to be incredibly time consuming.
Love all you miserable people
He was over 70 pitchers plus the pitches he threw during the delay. The first batter of the inning crushed a line drive that DeShields screwed up. By the way, Statcast had that drive rated as being caught 99% of the time. Then Cookie walked the next two hitters. Between the pitch count, the rain delay, and getting beat by the first three batters it was time to lift him.Thought it interesting Carrasco said he "threw 2 innings" during the rain issues. Still, if at all possible I would have let him get out of the trouble himelf. (Yeah, I know, we go by the numbers) He is a veteran - and only the DeShields misplay was his problem in the inning.