The Cleveland Indians lineup contains some of the best hitters in the American League.
The production of the lineup as a whole has yet to reflect that.
As the Indians are set to complete the first third of the shortened 2020 season tonight, I found myself wondering: how much better would the Indians record be if the output of the team was league-average instead of a league-worst 3.3 runs per game?
For the sake of the argument, we’ll say that the pitching staff would remain as effective as they’ve been up to this point. From there, we’ll use Pythagorean Expected Wins to show how much better the Indians record to date might be if they were simply league-average at the plate.