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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho
The Red Sox have a better offense (by a large gap) and are also less power dependent than the Jays. Cleveland has handled them so far.
Kluber is a good matchup against Toronto (as good as you will find).
What I think has been overlooked by many is how good Cleveland's offense has been. They were the second-best offense in baseball this year, behind the Red Sox.
And their offense can win multiple ways... With HRs, with stringing together hits, with working counts and drawing walks... And also with speed.
Toronto might have a better-looking rotation, but Cleveland trumps them everywhere else and has a good enough bullpen to make its lesser starters play "up."
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All good points. My concern is simply how badly Tomlin and Bauer pitched to end the season. A 7 game series could force them to spread out a lot of mediocre to bad starters over that series. Tomlin has been atrocious, but their Game 4 starter would be even worse.
If Tomlin and Bauer can at least keep Cleveland in the games (like our starters in 2015) I like Cleveland's odds in the later innings.
Cleveland was my AL WS pick btw, and it'd be great if one of my postseason predictions in a non-Royals year came true.