Pending the biggest collapse ever, the Tribe is in the playoffs. So why not get a jump start on predicting their playoff roster?

First, I am going to assume Andrew Miller, Trevor Bauer, and Josh Donaldson will be back from injury. The playoff roster is 25 guys. In 2016 in the World Series, he carried 12 guys and in 2017 in he brought 11 pitchers along to face the Yankees. In 2013, Tito carried 11 pitchers into a wild card game. A 1 game playoff  and Tito still felt he needed 11 pitchers. Safe to say the breakdown will be 11 pitchers and 14 batters.

Here are the easy ones.

Pitchers:

1. Kluber
2. Carrasco
3. Bauer
4. Clevinger
5. Hand
6. Cimber
7. Allen
8. Miller
9. Perez

Position Players:

1. Gomes
2. Alonso
3. Ramirez
4. Lindor
5. Donaldson
6. Perez
7. Kipnis
8. Brantley
9. Cabrera
10. Allen
11. Edwin

That leaves two and three spots respectively. For pitchers, it comes down to the following guys.

1. Shane Bieber
2. Adam Plutko
3. Neil Ramirez
4. Josh Tomlin
5. Dan Otero
6. Tyler Olson

For the hitters you have:

1. Rajai Davis
2. Brandon Guyer
3. Erik Gonzalez
4. Yandy Diaz

Tito is loyal as they come but there is just no way Josh Tomlin makes this roster. Tyler Olson is out too. Bieber is in. He has earned this spot. That give the final spot to either Neil Ramirez, Dan Otero or Adam Plutko. Neil Ramirez has been trash of late. Dan Otero has been pretty shitty all year. Adam Plutko makes most sense but Tito is loyal (see above). Dan Otero makes this roster.

Now for them hitters. One of Guyer and Rajai makes this roster at the very least. I’ll get back to that. Yandy is hitting too well to keep off of here. He is in. 2 spots left. I think Erik Gonzalez is needed too. So we have one spot left. I can’t really believe Guyer or Rajai will be left off but spots are limited. Rajai is great for speed and defense. Guyer hits lefties and plays ok defense. This is difficult to do but I think Guyer makes it for his ability to hit lefties and Rajai is left off. Tough call and could be either but that’s how I see it falling. Personally, I’d rather Tito go with 10 pitchers, leave Otero off and bring Rajai around. We need his 2016 Magic.

Projected Playoff Roster

1. Kluber
2. Carrasco
3. Bauer
4. Clevinger
5. Hand
6. Cimber
7. Allen
8. Miller
9. Perez
10. Gomes
11. Alonso
12. Ramirez
13. Lindor
14. Donaldson
15. Perez
16. Kipnis
17. Brantley
18. Cabrera
19. Allen
20. Edwin
21. Shane Bieber
22. Dan Otero
23. Brandon Guyer
24. Erik Gonzalez
25. Yandy Diaz