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2010 Keys to Success: Kansas City Royals
- By samanthabunten
- November 5th, 2009
This article is the third in a series outlining key objectives for success in 2010 for each AL Central team.
Today, the ever-struggling, yet ever-promising Kansas City Royals.
2009 Record: 65-97
4th Place (tie) in the AL Central
Like the question of whether a Cubs' curse really exists, and everything that comes out of Manny Ramirez's mouth, the Royals are one of the most confounding mysteries of baseball.
Simply put, the team that exists on paper in Kansas City in spring training (and in recent years even into mid-April), is never the team that shows up to play the bulk of the baseball season.
Essentially, the Royals are either far better than they look on the field, or far worse than they look on paper, depending on how you prefer to finish the...
2010 Keys to Success: Chicago White Sox
- By samanthabunten
- October 30th, 2009
This article is the second in a series outlining key objectives for success in 2010 for each AL Central team.
Today, a perennial Central Division contender, the Chicago White Sox.
2009 Record: 79-83
3rd Place in the AL Central
One thing the White Sox always get right: they continue to be in the mix and come close to the AL Central title nearly every year.
Unfortunately for Chicago fans, baseball is neither horseshoes nor hand grenades, so close doesn't count.
While Detroit held the division lead for the better part of the season, Chicago spent most of it right on their heels, looking like the team with the best shot to catch them.
Alas, by the end of the regular season, it was Minnesota who managed to squeak past the Tigers, and the...
2010 Keys to Success: Cleveland Indians
- By samanthabunten
- October 27th, 2009
This article is the first in a series outlining key objectives for success in 2010 for each AL Central team.
We will begin with my hometown team, the Cleveland Indians.
2009 Record: 65-97
5th Place in the AL Central
For the beleaguered 2009 Indians, there is nowhere to go but up.
The Indians began 2009 as a favorite to win the AL Central, but wound up being the laughing stock of the division as injuries, under-performance, and poor decision making ultimately doomed the Tribe to a last place finish in the Central.
At the close of the 2009 season, Tribe fans found themselves frustrated and relieved only that the team escaped a 100-loss season, rather than watching their team fight it out in a pennant race as was expected going into the...
2010 Keys to Success: Cleveland Indians
- By samanthabunten
- October 27th, 2009
This article is the first in a series outlining key objectives for success in 2010 for each AL Central team. We will begin with my hometown team, the Cleveland Indians. 2009 Record: 65-97 5th Place in the AL Central For the beleaguered 2009 Indians, there is nowhere to go but up. The Indians began 2009 as a favorite to win the AL Central, but wound up being the laughing stock of the division as injuries, under-performance, and poor decision making ultimately doomed the Tribe to a last place finish in the Central. At the close of the 2009 season, Tribe fans found themselves frustrated and relieved only that the team escaped a 100-loss season, rather than watching their team fight it out in a pennant race as was expected going into the...
The Best Baseball You're Not Watching
- By samanthabunten
- October 27th, 2009
If a tree falls in the forest and there is no one there to hear it, does it make a sound? If a pennant race happens in the AL Central and no one is there to watch it, is it really a pennant race? Somewhere, lost amongst the big markets in Los Angeles, New York, and Boston, the former World Series champions in Philadelphia, and the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry, lurks the AL Central, home of the season's most intense (and least noticed) pennant race. The Minnesota Twins late-season push to knock off the Detroit Tigers, who have held a tenuous and uncomfortable, if steady, lead in the AL Central for the better part of the season, reaches its climax today, on the last day of the regular season, as the two teams...
Twins. Tigers. Showdown!
- By samanthabunten
- October 27th, 2009
There is a palpable sense of irony surrounding tonight's Twins-Tigers game when one considers that, after a 162-game season, the winner of the AL Central division title will be determined by just one measly, tie-breaking game. It seems a little unfair for the stakes to be so high on just nine innings after the Twins and Tigers have each played 1,458 innings over the course of the season (give or take an extra inning game or a rain-shortened contest). But yet, when the regular season ends in a tie between two teams, it was really only about one measly game at ANY point during the season. If either the Twins or the Tigers had managed to eke out just one more victory, at any point between the beginning of April...
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