Cleveland Indians' End Of Season Survey

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At various points throughout the season, we try to take a bit of a step back and objectively review what has come to pass and what the future might hold for our Cleveland Indians.

We conducted a survey of Indians fans and experts at the beginning of the season, the All-Star break, and one last time when the 2009 season came to a close. Below, you will find our final conclusions on the Indians' 2009 season, based on the results of our last survey.

Part One of the article compares how our panelists voted on a set of questions at the beginning of the year versus at the end of the year, and also includes poll results on end-of-season issues. Part Two of the article is comprised of a selection of responses from our panelists to a few final short answer questions.

This article was a project shared by my fellow Indians Featured Columnist Nino Colla and I. A huge thanks to Nino, who organized and wrote Part One of this article, sorted through our data until it turned into something that made sense, and honestly did most of the work on this endeavor.

Thanks are also in order for our dedicated, hard-working panelists, who have stuck it out through surveys and Tribe Talk questions throughout this disappointing Indians' season when it would have been so much easier to just give up. So a big thanks goes to Dale Thomas, The Coop, Jeff Poore, Joyce Quayle, Matt Swope, and Kanka for their participation.

Part One: The Numbers

At the beginning of the season, we asked the Cleveland Indians community at Bleacher Report to answer a few questions for the end of the season.

The basic things were asked such as MVP of the team, if the Tribe would make the postseason, and the final starting rotation. Also explored were a few different kinds of questions such as over-unders and if some of the players would match specific statistical goals.

Further proving that baseball is a game where you never know what to expect, half the team ended up gone and most of these questions became ridiculously sad looking. However there is no shame in looking back to see what we thought and just how bad things went.

However, this wouldn’t be a season wrap-up without going back and seeing who everyone thought was the real MVP when all was said and done, so we did that as well.

MVP

Preseason
Sizemore - 5
Martinez – 1

Postseason

Asdrubal Cabrera – 5

Victor Martinez – 2

Shin-Soo Choo - 1

Cy Young

Preseason
Carmona - 3
Lee - 2
Pavano - 1

Postseason

Cliff Lee - 4

Aaron Laffey - 2

David Huff - 1

Carl Pavano - 1

Reliever
Preseason

Wood - 3
R. Perez - 2
Lewis - 1

Postseason

Tony Sipp - 5

Chris Perez - 2

Rafael Betancourt - 1

Rookie

Preseason
Trevor Crowe - 4
David Huff - 1
Matt LaPorta – 1

Postseason

David Huff - 3

Tony Sipp - 2

Luis Valbuena - 2

Michael Brantley - 1

Win Total
95 - 2
93
91
90
89

Al Central
Yes - 6
No - 0

Rotation
6/6 Cliff Lee
5/6 Aaron Laffey
5/6 Fausto Carmona
5/6 Carl Pavano
4/6 Anthony Reyes
3/6 Jake Westbrook
2/6 Scott Lewis

Actual: Fausto Carmona, Aaron Laffey, Justin Masterson, David Huff, Jeremy Sowers, Carlos Carrasco

Left Fielder
Trevor Crowe - 3
Ben Francisco – 3

Actual: Trevor Crowe

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