Saturday, March 17, 2007

The Indians

Over at MLB Trade Rumors Tim Dierkes has a team round up for the Indians which is mostly all of their salary commitments. A couple of other notes he makes however are quite interesting. Most of you know that the Indians are one of my favorite teams this year and I think they can be a World Series Contender, as does Tim.

He notes:

- The Indians infield probably took a hit defensively but an improved season from Jhonny Peralta could balance that out.

- The Offense will be top 5 in the AL again and if Hafner can put together a full season they could be second to the Yankees.

- The Pitching can put together a top 5 rotation in the AL this year and is certainly top 7-10.

- The Bullpen is the biggest question going into the season with Joe Borowski as the closer.

- The team has a ton of depth and will have to leave some major league ready talent in AAA to start the year.

Credit Mark Shapiro for assembling such a good and young team for only 60MM.