so how many games will the cleveland indians win the division by this year?
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Probably 3-5. They'll finish with around 92 wins and the White Sox will be a few behind them.
381937
There are 30 teams. 16 National League and 14 American League
411269
No.  The AL Central is one of the best divisions in baseball with the defending World Series Champions in the White Sox who upgraded their squad with the additions of Jim Thome and Javier Vasquez, a hungry Cleveland Indians team that just missed the postseason last year and the always dangerous Twins.  \n\nThe Tigers are off to a hot start and have good balance of experienced (Pudge Rodriquez, Magglior Ordonez, Dimitri Young, Placido Polanco) and young hitters (Chris Shelton, Curtis Granderson and Craig Monroe) along with a decent starting rotation, but in the end the Tigers thin bullpen and the fact that the White Sox and Indians are just better teams, will prevent them from capturing the division title.
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Indians 6-5\nhttp://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/recap?gid=260518105&prov=ap
45739
I would say it's highly unlikely, for the same reason Toronto (despite all their offseason moves) will have trouble reaching the post-season. When you play 38 games a year against two tough divisional foes (St Louis and Houston), it's an uphill battle. Plus, they haven't really added any talent to rotation other than Howry, a career .500 pitcher.
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The Indians will do awesome.  Think about who they have batting.  Sizemore, a great leadoff hitter.  Pronk, who will probably lead the league in homers and RBIs.  VMart, hands down the best catcher in the league.  And a few others who are showing their potential at the right time (Casey Blake, Ronnie Belliard, etc.).  Even Eduardo Perez (a former Tampa Bay-er) is getting into the act.\n\nTheir pitching staff, while not stellar, has enough to make it deep into the playoffs.  CC and Jake are good.  Jason Johnson has been good so far, and Wickman hasn't shown signs of faltering as their closer.  I think they are in a tough division though (who would have said this two years ago) but they should be able to overcome the Twins and either be a wild card team or AL Central winners.
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Not this year. Been awhile since the Tigers have won anything.
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If our pitching stays the course, yes.\n\nThe Tigers have the LOWEST era in MLB.\n\nI can't wait to visit "The Cell" and return the favor (sweeping them at home).\n\nIt is going to be an interesting year.\n\nHistory has shown the WS champs hardly repeat, so to all you white sox fans that "claim" you can repeat, I say "Good Riddance!"\n\nWe'll talk more in September.
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Well, it comes down to two teams. First I will say the second best and that's the White Sox with Jose Contreras (8-0, 3.15 ERA) who hasn't lost a game since sometime in the middle of last season and Mark Buehrle (9-4, 3.22 ERA). Number one, though, goes to the Tigers with rookie Justin Verlander (10-4, 3.13 ERA) and Kenny Rogers (3.44, 10-3), opposite ends of the spectrum, no? They are both having great seasons and seem to be leading their team deep in the playoffs. It's a close call and you can argue you it either way, but that's 20 wins by two starters versus 17. Slight edge to the Tigers. You might think about Clemens and Roy Oswalt in Houston.
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It ended at 6 games today, with a 7-2 loss to The California Angels.\n\nI am very pleased to see The Tigers get off to a great start. I seriously doubt they made the playoffs this year. \n\nThe Central Division is just too strong.\n\nI'd be very happy with a 3rd place finish, anything above .500 (considering it's been 12 years since they finished above .500).\n\nI am enjoying this while it lasts.
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THEY WILL MAKE THE PLAYOFFS BUT THEY WON WIN IT ALL.  THE BRAVES WILL NOT WIN THE DIVISION FOR THE 15TH TIME...I THINK THE METS HAVE TO MANY BULLPEN AND STARTER PROBLEMS.
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Let's use the Florida Marlins as an example of a team in a five-team division. They will play three games each against a division in the American league for a total of 15 interleague games. Then they'll play 6-8 games against non-divisional teams in their league. That's six games each against 11 opponents, or 66 games. They will then play their divisional rivals (Braves, Mets, Nationals, and Phillies) 18-20 times each. That comes out to between 72 and 80 games. Schedulers try to have each team play exactly 81 games at home, but it can range from 78 to 84.
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Seattle is a good team and I want to see them do good so Ichiro can get a lot of ppostseason experience. But them switching I don't think will happen because there is 14 teams in the AL and 16 in the NL, so switching leagues would make the AL smaller, and the AL West would only have 3 teams, so talk about an easy division (Texas, Oakland, Los Angeles).
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As a Royals fan, I am hoping and hoping that it doesn't happen but honestly I don't think it will because they usually manage to pick it up a little bit through interleague play and through the middle of the season.I think they will win at least 50 games this year.
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You could use a bunch of different measuring sticks.  Last year's NL East had the top four teams finish within 7 games of each other, while the West had the last place team only 15 games behind the division winner, the same as the 1996 NL Central.  The 1995 NL West (only 4 teams) had an 11 game gap between first and last, but that season was strike-shortened, as was 1994 when the 4 teams in the AL West were within 5 1/2 games of each other.  The 2004 AL West had the top three teams within 3 games of each other.\n\nIf we're only going to go back to the 3-division format in each league, those have been the closest races.
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Opening day is April 3'rd.\nHowever, the first game of the season is April 2'nd a night game between the Indians and Whitesox.\nSo the season actually begins on the 2'nd of April.
34587
Yes they have a good chance because the three division leaders go to the playoffs no matter what and there division is not good at all they were leading that division with a 14-14 record so they should be able to win there division but once they get to the playoffs I don't think they will go anywhere.