ITS TRIBE TIME

Your 2009 Cleveland Indians Pre Season guide and season predictions

The Indians have finally added an above average closer, and a phenomenal bullpen to get the ball to wood. But they have a terrible starting rotation, terrible outfield outside of grady sizemore, below average infield besides mark derosa and victor when at first. Johnny Peralta is to slow for his position, AsCab can't hit, and the DH Pronk forgot how to hit the long ball. Choo is decent the best outfielder after sizemore. Francisco is okay, and i am better than dellucci. so i predict it won't take long before we see matt laporta and trevor crowe in cleveland. AsCab struggling, Wedge puts in Josh Barfield who ends up hitting .302 with 60 RBI's. Crowe becomes the lead off hitter bumping grady to third.

Its hard to be excited about this team because of the lack of starting pitchers, last year it was a strength this year weakness. Cliff Lee will win 20 games and win the cy young again. fausto will win 17 and return to form of '07. Pavano maybe wins 13 games and the last two rotation spots combine to win 25 games. So if my predictions are right that is 75 wins. which thankfully our bullpen will come in the fifth inning and dominate and win 15 more games for us which gets to 90. so the tribe has a 90 win season and makes the playoffs by beating the twins in a one game playoff which i better get tickets to if it actually happens.

So here are my predictions for all of baseball

AL East Champs: New York Yankees
AL Central Champs: Cleveland Indians
AL West Champs: Oakland A's
AL Wild Card: Tampa Bay

AL MVP: Grady Sizemore for 40/40/40 season homers/steals/amazing plays (yes he is my man crush)

finally all the reds fans that jumped on the red sox bandwagon will have to shut the heck up.

NL East Champs: New York Mets Santana wins Cy Young
NL Central Champs: Chicago Cubs
NL West Champs: San Francisco Giants just look at their starting rotation.
NL Wild Card: Philadelphia Phillies (Just for Stroop)

NL MVP: Brandon Phillips for his 40/40 season

Reds greatly improve this season by winning 86 games coming short of the NL Central. Harang doesn't bounce back like Huff predicted and is the sole reason they missed the playoffs by 3 games. He goes 6-15 with an ERA of 4.50. arroyo finishes runner up in the CY Young voting after winning 19 games with an ERA of 2.89. Unfortunately for Bronson, Johann Santana has a season of a lifetime by going 45-0 with an era of 1.67.

First round of playoffs: Yankees vs Indians Yankees win 3-1
A's vs Rays Rays win 3-1
Mets vs Giants Giants win 3-1
Cubs vs Phillies Phillies win 3-2

Championship series: Yankees vs Rays Yankees win 4-3
Giants vs Phillies Giants win 4-2

WORLD SERIES: Giants vs Yankees Giants win 4-3

Tim Lincecum MVP of playoffs


There you have it folks the greatest predicter of all time has finally made his predictions.


WEDGE GETS FIRED AT THE END OF THE SEASON and the indians hold open interviews for anyone who wants the job. I apply and interview and get hired. So i won't be making anymore bold predictions just straight up stuff about the team next year.