Who Will Win More Games In 2011: Royals or Indians?
by Freneau on Mar 30, 2011 1:13 PM EDT
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Team Slogans: Major League Moments v. Are You in the Tribe?
Key Acquisitions: Royals- Jeff Francoeur, Melky Cabrera, Jeff Francis, Alcides Escobar, Lorenzo Cain. Indians - Austin Kearns, Orlando Cabrera, Nick Johnson
Wins in 2010: Royals - 67. Indians - 69
Casual Fan's Take on Franchise: Royals - Proven vets like Francoeur will mentor young stars, until everyone gets traded/signed by the Yankees. Indians - LeBron James must die. Yankees suck.
State of Team's SB Nation Blog Community: Royals - The GM is great/horrible, let's argue about it! Indians - It's not hopeless, no wait it probably is.
National Writer Connected to Team/City: Royals- St. Poz, stathead side. Indians - St. Poz when he's being sentimental and nostalgic about his childhood and/or Duane Kuiper.
Disturbing Minor League Trend: Royals - Horrible franchise names. Indians - Disgustingly gigantic piles of meat.
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20-10-1!!!!!!!!!!
Champions and the season hasn’t even started.
Go Royals!
If I'm not mistaken
Cleveland doesn’t have a Process. Because of this, they will suck
Slow flushing toilets at other people's houses make me nervous.
Sadly they do have a process
Listened to a couple of people in their front office while down for spring training with Fangraphs and their process was brought up a couple of times. Matt K. about couldn’t keep a straight face when it was being discussed.
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by Jeff Zimmerman on Mar 30, 2011 3:59 PM EDT up reply actions
Indians seem particularly dreadful to me
Particularly if Sizemore and Santana don’t bounce back from injury well.
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If Sizemore and Santana do stay relatively healthy, Cleveland could put some distance between the Royals for fourth. However, it is hard for me to imagine Sizemore having a ‘vintage’ of anything close to his previous 30-30 years when he is coming off microfracture surgery. Santana had more of a minor procedure on his knee so I don’t think there will be any long term problems for him. Though we may see more of Santana in a 1B/DH role on occasion to save wear and tear on his knees. His injuries are less likely to take away at bats.
by fightwookies on Mar 30, 2011 2:24 PM EDT up reply actions
I see Sizemore as being like 2010 Greinke
he is realizing he is surrounded be crap with little hope of rapid success
"Things could always be worse." - Buddy Bell
I know the feeling
I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.
by philofthenorth on Mar 30, 2011 3:38 PM EDT up reply actions
Taking 4th place would be amazing
It All Happens Here
Chiefs Might
by chicks_love_chiefs on Mar 30, 2011 1:25 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Cleveland
While KC’s talent seems to be better-than-awful, there’s always this:
Hochevar
Francis
Davies
Chen
Mazzaro
The whole problem with the world is that fools & fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. ~ Bertrand Russell
by SagehenMacGyver47 on Mar 30, 2011 1:54 PM EDT reply actions
Pretty much this
As sad as it is, that SP rotation is best case scenario. If Francis and/or Luke go down with injuries… Yikes.
As opposed to
Carmona (until he’s traded?)
Carrasco
Masterson
Talbot
Tomlin
Cleveland’s is better, but it ain’t exactly the Big Three.
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Just wondered
FIP – last 4 seasons – in order listed above
Royals
4.47
4.77
4.79
4.85
5.04
(wow, were the Royals using FIP to decide what order their SP’s would get?)
Indians
4.43
5.11
4.04
4.48
4.59
The whole problem with the world is that fools & fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. ~ Bertrand Russell
by SagehenMacGyver47 on Mar 30, 2011 4:51 PM EDT up reply actions
ugh, I just noticed that this is their FIPs with the respective team
for instance, Masterson should be 4.14 (he had 4.04 with Cle, but 4.14 total with Bos & Cle).
The whole problem with the world is that fools & fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. ~ Bertrand Russell
by SagehenMacGyver47 on Mar 30, 2011 4:54 PM EDT up reply actions
who wouldn't be sentimental about Duane Kuiper?
Hell, I sort of am and I grew up in BFE, Michigan.
"Shot by my own men."
don't forget Bob Feller and Buddy Bell
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by Matt Klaassen on Mar 30, 2011 3:43 PM EDT up reply actions
This is easy to answer.
Just look at each team's spring training record.
by Black and Gold on Mar 30, 2011 2:20 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
I like the fact that they serve the new 2 lb burger on two buns, not one
"Things could always be worse." - Buddy Bell
Plus buns
and plus buns!!!
Tension is the enemy. - Charlie Lau
by aHorseWithNoName on Mar 30, 2011 4:16 PM EDT up reply actions
The Royals, for sure. Because the Indians didn't
Adcock.
Chaim Mattis Keller New York City's # 1 Royals fan!
What Choo talkin bout?
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by RoyalsRetro on Mar 31, 2011 11:08 AM EDT up reply actions
We have a commanding lead
but, I believe we had the same poll and the same early lead last year until the Cleveland readership showed up.
I haven't answered the poll question
I’m saying the Royals will win 70 games (they’ll have to outperform the pythag W-L to do it). I just don’t have a good read on the Indians – other than Shin-Soo Choo kills us (.377/.488/.638 with 20 RBI in 18 games last year).
Tension is the enemy. - Charlie Lau
by aHorseWithNoName on Mar 30, 2011 4:43 PM EDT reply actions
.000/1.000/.000 is an interesting slash
…at least they’d lower his OPS from 1.126 to 1.000, though.
If women only slept with nice guys...guys would only be nice. And they don't. And we're not.
by setupunchtag on Mar 30, 2011 9:04 PM EDT up reply actions
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