Major League Baseball Special: What to expect from Cleveland Indians in 2012...?
The Cleveland Indians have enjoyed a relatively good 2011 Major League Baseball season with 80-82. They were quick in field and made little errors giving away less room for opponents to attack them. Last season’s good form and some exceptional victories
is still giving hope to the Indians top management to show same level of excitement in the upcoming season as well. For this, the Indians have a clear objective to achieve in the next season. The Indians know that their team is offensively strong and defensively
less competitive. In order to bring balance and winning consistency, the management has briefed their players with enormous detail.
These details are mainly to calm down the defensive order of the roster especially down the stretch late in the regular season. If the Indians did manage to act on the given details, this is a fair bit of chance that they will do well in the coming season
finishing somewhere top in the National League Central. Overall the team and top management is looking fine with the latest strategy the Indians are going to practice in the coming event.
The Indians batting line-up, along with rotation and bench strength have already appreciated the level of intensity their management is showing lying down a new game plan for future successes. The projected line-up includes, Carlos Santana, Casey Kotchman,
Jason Kipnis, Lonnie Chisenhall, Asdrubal Cabrera, Michael Brantley, Grady Sizemore, Shin-Soo Choo and Travis Hafner. The potential starting rotation consists of Ubaldo Jimenez, Justin Masterson, Derek Lowe, Josh Tomlin and Kevin Slowey.
The Indians have also relatively good bench power and can use them whenever they needed especially in crucial times. Players like Lou Marson, Jason Donald, Matt LaPorta, Jack Hannahan and Shelley Duncan will available as top bench options for entire of the
2012 season. Whereas the Indians’ Chris Perez, Tony Sipp, Vinnie Pestano, Joe Smith, Rafael Perez, Frank Herrmann and Dan Wheeler are among in projected bullpen for the next season.
Another thing that might work for the Indians is the new format of the Major League. The League has introduced a new format in which two extra teams will be heading into the post season via wild card entries. The Indians manager Manny Acta was the first
one to comment in the media and praised the league and commissioner Bud Selig for this new format linking it to his team directly.
"I like it," Acta said with confidence. "The more the merrier. It gets another team in the playoffs, and it will tend to make more teams play harder until the end of the season."
"If I am on a wild card team, I should just play the game and appreciate the opportunity,'' Acta added pointing out the slight benefit his team will be getting.”After all, there didn't used to be a wild card.''
On the other hand, the Indians overall team is looking in great shape as the recent Spring Training sessions in Arizona went well for them regarding every aspect of the game. Their hitters and pitchers were certainly confident when they headed into the training
sessions and since the training period has over, the team is looking exceptionally positive and feeling high spirited for competing well in the next season.
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