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Originally Posted by sansterre
American League
#5 Cleveland Blues, 66-70
Cleveland is a team with a lot of upside. They have no pitching at all; 409 BBs to 370 Ks isn't a good ratio. Their only pitcher of any value, 24 year old Pete Dowling (1.5 K/BB) retires at the end of the year. (Welcome to 1901, with 30 year old rookies and 25 year old retirees!)
Their bats are another matter. Ollie Pickering, 31, is a CF who throws up a 329/403/416 for a 6 WAR season. Bob Wood, 35 puts up a 4.5 WAR season at catcher. Erve Beck, 22, has a 4.5 WAR season at 2B and Bill Bradley, 23, puts up a 322/360/467 at 3B for a 3.3 WAR season. It's not hard to look at Beck and Bradley and think that with just a little bit of help they could take this team in a good direction. Just not this year.
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I recently started a historic league with Cleveland, but starting in 1902, when they acquired Nap Lajoie midway through the season, and also had Addie Joss as a rookie. So far, they're scuffling along about 40 games into the season -- and making 5-6 errors a game at least twice a week.