Comments on: Pretending to be Tito For a Few Minutes

By: Be Rad

Be Rad — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 04:12:44 +0000

Carrera as anything other than a 4th OF is embarrassing. Despite that he looks fast, he has not shown to be a defensive attribute. He won’t walk much, so unless he is an Ichiro like slap hitter with a BA over .310 his OBP will hurt the team at the top of the order. Assuming we don’t add another bat to rotate with Reynolds at 1B/DH, the big question is will Tito trust Brantley can take some BB’s in front of the most powerful hitters. If you trust Brantley I would go Brantley, A Cab, Santana, Swish, Reynolds, Kipnis, internal RH DH,Chisenhall, Stubbs. I think I have more faith in Kipnis’ bat than most, I would be tempted to swap him with Reynolds. I would not prefer that line up, because when I watch Brantley and think his ceiling is more a David Justice style player, not awesome leadoff guy. When Tito calls me to ask my opinion of the line up I will tell him: Kipnis, A Cab, Santana, Swish, Reynolds, Brantley, RH Internal DH, Chisenhall, Stubbs. They are 1 hitter away from a very quality line up If they could find a LF, RF, 1B, or DH thats right handed I would be as excited as I was going in 2006 for the offense. As for the Pitching staff who the hell knows, Jarret Wright and Chad Ogea surprised us once!

By: Chris Burnham

Chris Burnham — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:21:59 +0000

Haven’t made one of those since I was in third grade. I am old.

By: Drew

Drew — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:10:41 +0000

The only thing that I could throw in there is that the Indians sans Choo do not have a legit lead-off hitter. Looking at OBP from the last two seasons, seriously, Ezekiel Carrera has the highest in the leadoff spot outside of Choo. That may not be that bad of an option (Carerra DH) leading off. Then Kipnis, Cabrera, Santana, Swisher, Brantley, Reynolds, Chisenhall, and Stubbs.

By: Steve Alex

Steve Alex — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:24:41 +0000

The manager might want his two best run producers, Santana and Swisher, 3-4. Swisher might be ideal as a #5, but this team doesn’t have a strong enough 1-4 for that luxury, not after the Choo trade. I love Kipnis leading off because you need a stolen base threat and high energy guy in the honorary Lofton spot, and Kipnis is definitely that guy. Cabrera would be an ideal #2.

By: Mary Jo

Mary Jo — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 07:43:30 +0000

It is now January 10th. Pitchers and catchers report on February 10th. You have only one month to fritter time away. I suggest making a paper chain.

By: Chris Burnham

Chris Burnham — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:21:42 +0000

That’s one of the tricky spots in the lineup. Either way would be pretty good, I think. Admittedly, I spent about five minutes on those two guys alone before settling with what I posted.

By: Al

Al — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:09:15 +0000

Brantley at third? Not a huge fan of that. I’d say switch him and Cabrera and that’d make much more sense