Your 2018 Cleveland Indians

[Urban]

Not the right place for this, but I have been following the Yankees vs Red Sox game tonight as well. The Yankees have 3 HR and none have gone over 338 ft.

All 4 of the other AL playoff teams have wacky stadiums

 

[JFT]

Kip with the WALKOFF Grand Slam! Timely.

 

[Derek]

May 19-Sept 19 (4 months)

Jason Kipnis
382 PA
.257/.346/.455
116 wRC+
16 HR
7 SB

 

[FrontPageNews]

Kipnis is throwing me though an emotional roller coaster this year.

 

[The Wizard of Moz]

Man I can’t wait for playoff baseball to start

That 2016 run was the most fun I’ve ever had being a Tribe fan. And this year having Clevinger emerge as a top 15 starter, Bauer emerge as a top 3 or 4 starter and Cookie and Kluber... we’re gonna be a tough out for anyone

 

[Zeus69]

Hoping Bauer makes it fully back to his TOR form. Have heard discussions about using him as middle relief bridge if arm endurance not quite at starter level.

 

[Derek]

Hoping Bauer makes it fully back to his TOR form. Have heard discussions about using him as middle relief bridge if arm endurance not quite at starter level.

I don't think there's any doubt about his arm endurance. He never stopped throwing. The only question is whether his leg is fully healed, and ready to be pushed off of 100+ times/night.

 

[Stark]

Kipnis is exactly 1000 for 3800 in his MLB career (.263). Doesn't mean much, but just thought it was funny how rounded off both of those numbers are right now.

 

[sportscoach]

Bauer will be back on the mound!

 

[PIP]

I wonder if they can even win 90 this season

 

[NorthCoastBias]

I wonder why that even matters.

 

[chuck0609]

I don't think there's any doubt about his arm endurance. He never stopped throwing. The only question is whether his leg is fully healed, and ready to be pushed off of 100+ times/night.

Arm endurance is tied to leg endurance. If there’s an issue, it’s going to be whether or not he has 100% of his legs. 3-4 weeks should be enough and then during the series to get them back.

 

[Derek]

Arm endurance is tied to leg endurance. If there’s an issue, it’s going to be whether or not he has 100% of his legs. 3-4 weeks should be enough and then during the series to get them back.

That’s not what I’m talking about. I’m saying the only potential issue would be if his leg isn’t fully healed and he feels pain after repeatedly putting stress on it.

 

[Benway]

It would be nice to gain home field for the World Series.

 

[Vindicate2]

I did some digging on the tiebreakers rule for home field advantage in the World Series for those interested. Here is what I found (Link)

1. Head-to-head winning percentage during the regular season.
2. Higher winning percentage in intradivision games.
3. Higher winning percentage in intraleague games.
4. Higher winning percentage in the last half of intraleague games.
5. Higher winning percentage in the last half plus one intraleague game, provided that such additional game was not between the two tied clubs. Continue to go back one intraleague game at a time until the tie has been broken.


Indians will have home field in the event we have the same record as these NL teams:
Cubs (Won head to head series)
Brewers (Won head to head series)
Dodgers (Will have a better intra-divisional record)
Rockies (Will have a better intra-divisional record)

Indians won’t win a tie breaker scenario
Cardinals (Lost head to head series)
Braves (Either by intra-divisional record or intra-league record)


(Edit - did the math after the Braves win . Indians can only at best tie division record , so Braves will win the tie breaker one way or the other)

On a side note, when they changed the rules for homefield in the World Series I thought that the best record rule applied to the LCS too , but that is not true. Meaning if the Yankees or the A’s beat Boston and the Indians beat Houston , Indians will have home field because no wildcard team can have home field over a division champion regardless of record.