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The Indians starting pitching has now thrown 43 1/3's innings worth of shutout baseball. What an accomplishment!

I ask out of ignorance instead of cockiness, but is there a better group of starting pitching in baseball?

Sabathia
Carmona
Lee
Westbrook
Byrd

Laffey
Sowers

Indians have the best rotation in baseball.

Nope

itd be even more had cc not given up a run last friday...what the hell was he thinking lol?

43 1/3 scoreless innings is ridiculous...if only we didnt hit like a little league team

SportsWorld wrote:Indians have the best rotation in baseball.

Real possibilities:

2 starters with 20 wins

3 starters with 15 wins

5 starters with 10 wins or more

Amazing.

A.J. wrote:Nope

I don't know, dude...the Angels haven't really been able to hold a candle to the Indians lately.

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Now that's the best rotation in baseball... :homer:

Right now? Yeah, probably. Although I would take the Rays rotation over them in a heartbeat.

And maybe the Diamondbacks. And possibly the Red Sox.

Although Aaron Laffey is the man. 2.25 GB/FB? YSPLZ.

The overall Staff of the Indians is 2nd in ERA although they have given up 10 fewer runs than the second team. They also appear to be getting better since their ERA was 3.92 in April and only 1.64 in May. And that is with CC having a terrible start to the season. That is for the overall squad. The relievers have actually only been okay, it's the starters that this is about and they've been outstanding. I'm not exactly sure how you could justify 3 teams having better starters, but I'm sure you can fabricate an reason.

I'm not saying they're the best, but the Jays rotation isn't too shabby:

- Doc Halladay
- AJ Burnett
- Shawn Marcum
- Dustin McGowan (Though he is less awesome since shaving the chops off)
- Jesse Litsch

But, the Indians are hard to argue against.

Basketball Jesus wrote:Right now? Yeah, probably. Although I would take the Rays rotation over them in a heartbeat.

And maybe the Diamondbacks. And possibly the Red Sox.

yeah D'backs have
Webb
Haren
Owings
Randy Johnson
Sherzer/Edgar Gonzalez/Doug Davis
The # 5 starter hasn't been great, but it'll be much better once Doug Davis returns.

Right now I'd take the Indians' rotation, but a healthy Mariners rotation deserves some consideration as well

No it doesn't. The Mariners have Felix Hernandez, a quasi-healthy Erik Bedard and a stable of fifth-starters.

Dang, and just like that the Indians streak ends at 44 2/3 innings after Laffey throws the ball into RF for the error.

Sucks that unearned runs still count

Toronto has one of the best rotations as well.

GYBE wrote:Toronto has one of the best rotations as well.

Though Dustin McGowan has suddenly transformed into Daniel Cabrera, and someone forgot to tell AJ Burnett that this can be a contract season if he wants it to be.

The Rays starting rotation has pitched fairly well overall.

Give them another season, and this may become one of the most dominant rotations in the last 15-20 years.

Kazmir
Shields
Garza
Jackson
Sonnanstine

Waiting in the wings:

Price
Niemann
Davis
McGee

And soon to be this years #1 draft pick.

I went to bed last night realizing I forgot to mention Arizona.

Webb
Haren
Owings
Randy Johnson
Doug Davis
Max S.