Comments on: American League Central Preview http://www.baseballdigest.com/2009/04/03/american-league-central-preview/ America's longest-running baseball-only magazine Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:34:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Peter Alexander http://www.baseballdigest.com/2009/04/03/american-league-central-preview/#comment-701 Peter Alexander Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:15:25 +0000 http://baseballdigest.com/?p=2047#comment-701 We all love to make predictions. Anyone can do it. It's free. If we're wrong, nobody remembers. I'm glad that you and most of the big name pundits at Yahoo are quite optimistic about the Tribe's first place chances in 2009. But, personally, as a very long time observer of the Cleveland Indians, I have to admit I have no idea. I feel better than most about the starting rotation. The pitching, in general, seems much stronger than last year. If people like Lewis, Kobayashi and Jackson fail, there's Sipp, Huff, Chulk and others waiting. Even Hector Rondon, perhaps! I feel uncertain about the offense-- in particular, Hafner, Shoo, Garko and Francisco. Probably, I'm mainly reacting to Spring Training, which every year, I tell myself not to take too seriously. If I'm predicting anything right now, it's that we'll be in a lot of low-scoring games, at least in April. Peter We all love to make predictions. Anyone can do it. It’s free. If we’re wrong, nobody remembers. I’m glad that you and most of the big name pundits at Yahoo are quite optimistic about the Tribe’s first place chances in 2009. But, personally, as a very long time observer of the Cleveland Indians, I have to admit I have no idea. I feel better than most about the starting rotation. The pitching, in general, seems much stronger than last year. If people like Lewis, Kobayashi and Jackson fail, there’s Sipp, Huff, Chulk and others waiting. Even Hector Rondon, perhaps!

I feel uncertain about the offense– in particular, Hafner, Shoo, Garko and Francisco. Probably, I’m mainly reacting to Spring Training, which every year, I tell myself not to take too seriously. If I’m predicting anything right now, it’s that we’ll be in a lot of low-scoring games, at least in April.

Peter

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