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Indians Season Offseason Review Part 1: Results

Found December 28, 2011 on Pro Sports Blogging:
PLAYERS: Shin-Soo Choo,  Grady Sizemore,  Travis Hafner,  Carlos Santana,  Trevor Crowe,  Kosuke Fukudome,  Lonnie Chisenhall,  Fausto Carmona,  Josh Tomlin,  Carlos Carrasco,  Tony Sipp,  Chris Perez,  David Huff,  Jeanmar Gomez,  Travis Buck,  Austin Kearns,  Jason Kipnis
TEAMS: Cleveland Indians,  Houston Astros

It’s been a couple months, but it’s time to look back on the Indians season and review how they did and by doing so, be able to figure out what this team can do in the future.  Sometimes its nice to take a little while to let the results sink in.  If you set your expectations in the first couple months in the season, this was a disappointment, but no one was predicting this team getting this close to .500.  The more optimistic predictions were something around 76-86.  Despite long injuries to Shin-Soo Choo, Grady Sizemore, and Travis Hafner, this team was able to compete in the division for most of the season. The Indians had a lot of questions coming into the season involving many players such as Asdrubal Caberera, Justin masterson, matt LaPorta, and Carlos Santana.  Overall, there were some very mixed results, but there is a lot of room for optimism around this team. Between Cabrera and Choo, the Indians have a pair of legitimate sluggers for the middle of the orde...
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