How many games will the Tribe win in 2015?
Poll runs for 15 days
Feel free to be more specific, and give reasons in a separate post!

I'll go with 85....4 games over .500.

Pitching, both starters and bullpen, still the team strength. Enough pitching depth in the minors to survive injuries.

Hitting, especially with power, still a weakness however there's enough bad pitching in the league to score some runs. Not going to outscore the other team against decent pitching.

Six teams qualify for the playoffs this year. Pitching and enough bad teams for Tribe to get in but playoff baseball is different and you need some power hitters that can hit good pitching.

Hope they have enough balls to eat some contract money from non-producers.

seagull wrote:I'll go with 85....4 games over .500.

Pitching, both starters and bullpen, still the team strength. Enough pitching depth in the minors to survive injuries.

Hitting, especially with power, still a weakness however there's enough bad pitching in the league to score some runs. Not going to outscore the other team against decent pitching.

Six teams qualify for the playoffs this year. Pitching and enough bad teams for Tribe to get in but playoff baseball is different and you need some power hitters that can hit good pitching.

Hope they have enough balls to eat some contract money from non-producers.

Please click on your response in the poll, SEAGULL.
So far we have two votes, both 86-90

Plug me in for 90. We win 3 games more than we lose each month.

130 wins!

Cause even the most awesome teams lose once in a while.

If Moss comes through, Brantley, Santana, and Moss make a pretty good run producing trio. 92 wins.

Hey, even the lurkers can vote in this poll, without having to post anything...

I think they can win 90 even without all things going their way [like Swisher coming back strong; or Chisenhall hitting like in the first half; or House breaking out as a 15 game winner]. I think Bauer steps up and joins Carlos and Corey in a reliable Big Three. Kipnis and Moss add to the offense. Lindor arrives mid season and Ramirez keeps busy as supersub or perhaps even takes over at 3rd.

loufla wrote:If Moss comes through, Brantley, Santana, and Moss make a pretty good run producing trio. 92 wins.

The poll shows no votes for 91-95 wins...

26 participated in the poll in 2013, 22 in 2014, 8 in 2015. Is that all that's left in the Forum? It's kind of like I'm talking to myself.

civ ollilavad wrote:26 participated in the poll in 2013, 22 in 2014, 8 in 2015. Is that all that's left in the Forum? It's kind of like I'm talking to myself.

We're up to 11 now. I just voted, and the poll goes another week.

JR

Any news on JoeZ?

SEAGULL: I did email JOE, and just posted some of his reply in the Winter Ball folder.

Thanks JR. Good to hear he's OK.

Give JoeZ an absentee ballot.

do we get to edit our replies now that we discovered the team does not have an offense?