American League Central · 2020
Cleveland Indians
- Team WAR
- 13.0 3.7 bat / 9.3 pitch
- Win %
- .583 pyth .578
- Run diff
- +39 4.13 / 3.48 per g
- wRC+
- 89
- ERA
- 3.34 FIP 3.45
- Home runs
- 60
The Cleveland Indians went 35-25 in 2020, a .583 winning percentage — 7th of 30 record in baseball. They scored 248 runs and allowed 209, a run differential of +39. The offence ranked 24th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 3.34 staff ERA was the second best. Their 89 team wRC+ was 11% below league average — 27th of 30 in MLB. José Ramírez led the position players at 3.0 WAR, and Shane Bieber the rotation at a 1.63 ERA.
Where the offence comes from
Roster contribution by share of the team total.
455 team hits
Batting
19 players, ranked by dbWAR.
| José Ramírez | 3B | 58 | 254 | 64 | 17 | 46 | 10 | .292 | .386 | .607 | .417 | 162 | 3.0 |
| César Hernández | 2B | 58 | 261 | 66 | 3 | 20 | 0 | .283 | .355 | .408 | .338 | 109 | 1.3 |
| Francisco Lindor | SS | 60 | 266 | 61 | 8 | 27 | 6 | .258 | .335 | .415 | .326 | 101 | 1.3 |
| Franmil Reyes | DH | 59 | 241 | 58 | 9 | 34 | 0 | .275 | .344 | .450 | .343 | 113 | 0.5 |
| Carlos Santana | 1B | 60 | 255 | 41 | 8 | 30 | 0 | .199 | .349 | .350 | .320 | 97 | 0.2 |
| Bradley Zimmer | CF | 18 | 50 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | .162 | .360 | .243 | .304 | 86 | 0.0 |
| Sandy León | C | 23 | 81 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 0 | .136 | .296 | .242 | .263 | 59 | 0.0 |
| Delino DeShields | CF | 36 | 120 | 27 | 0 | 7 | 3 | .252 | .310 | .318 | .284 | 73 | 0.0 |
| Greg Allen | LF | 10 | 32 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | .154 | .281 | .308 | .270 | 64 | -0.0 |
| Yu Chang | SS | 6 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .182 | .308 | .182 | .247 | 48 | -0.0 |
| Mike Freeman | LF | 21 | 43 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .237 | .302 | .316 | .278 | 69 | -0.0 |
| Jordan Luplow | LF | 29 | 92 | 15 | 2 | 8 | 0 | .192 | .304 | .359 | .297 | 82 | -0.1 |
| Domingo Santana | RF | 24 | 84 | 11 | 2 | 12 | 0 | .157 | .298 | .286 | .274 | 67 | -0.2 |
| Josh Naylor | LF | 40 | 104 | 24 | 1 | 6 | 1 | .247 | .291 | .330 | .276 | 68 | -0.2 |
| Daniel Johnson | RF | 4 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .083 | .154 | .083 | .074 | -68 | -0.2 |
| Roberto Pérez | C | 31 | 110 | 16 | 1 | 5 | 0 | .165 | .264 | .216 | .231 | 37 | -0.3 |
| Beau Taylor | C | 7 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .048 | .130 | .048 | .101 | -50 | -0.3 |
| Tyler Naquin | RF | 39 | 141 | 29 | 4 | 20 | 0 | .218 | .248 | .383 | .269 | 63 | -0.4 |
| Óscar Mercado | CF | 32 | 93 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 3 | .128 | .174 | .174 | .160 | -10 | -0.9 |
Pitching
16 pitchers, ranked by dbWAR.
| Shane Bieber | 12 | 12 | 77.1 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 122 | 1.63 | 2.07 | 0.87 | 14.2 | 2.7 |
| Carlos Carrasco | 12 | 12 | 68.0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 82 | 2.91 | 3.59 | 1.21 | 10.9 | 1.3 |
| Zach Plesac | 8 | 8 | 55.1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 57 | 2.28 | 3.39 | 0.80 | 9.3 | 1.2 |
| Aaron Civale | 12 | 12 | 74.0 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 69 | 4.74 | 4.03 | 1.32 | 8.4 | 1.1 |
| James Karinchak | 27 | 0 | 27.0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 53 | 2.67 | 1.52 | 1.11 | 17.7 | 1.0 |
| Brad Hand | 23 | 0 | 22.0 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 29 | 2.05 | 1.37 | 0.77 | 11.9 | 0.8 |
| Phil Maton | 23 | 0 | 21.2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 32 | 4.57 | 2.22 | 1.34 | 13.3 | 0.6 |
| Triston McKenzie | 8 | 6 | 33.1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 42 | 3.24 | 3.91 | 0.90 | 11.3 | 0.5 |
| Oliver Pérez | 21 | 0 | 18.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 2.00 | 3.14 | 1.06 | 7.0 | 0.3 |
| Nick Wittgren | 25 | 0 | 23.2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 3.42 | 4.42 | 1.01 | 10.6 | 0.1 |
| Adam Cimber | 14 | 0 | 11.1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3.97 | 3.99 | 1.32 | 4.0 | 0.1 |
| Logan Allen | 3 | 0 | 10.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3.38 | 5.35 | 1.78 | 5.9 | -0.1 |
| Dominic Leone | 12 | 0 | 9.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 8.38 | 5.47 | 1.97 | 14.9 | -0.1 |
| Adam Plutko | 10 | 4 | 27.2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 4.88 | 5.32 | 1.34 | 4.9 | -0.1 |
| Cam Hill | 18 | 0 | 18.1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 4.91 | 5.43 | 0.87 | 7.9 | -0.1 |
| Kyle Nelson | 1 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 54.00 | 27.19 | 6.00 | 0.0 | -0.2 |
Record versus run differential
Cleveland Indians are 35-25, a .583 win rate, while their +39 run differential implies .578. That is essentially in line — the record reflects the run scoring.