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LOUISVILLE GRAYS
1876 Finish: 4th place, 34-32
1877 Prediction: 3rd place
Louisville and Chicago both look like clubs that should be at or just over .500 - solid teams that have made discrete improvements over 1876 but that still look a little less than the top clubs. It wouldn't be surprising to see either of them contending but they seem like they will need a great deal of luck to win the pennant. Third baseman Ezra Sutton was Louisville's biggest addition in the offseason. Their starters for 1877:
c - Scott Hastings (batted .320 in 1876)
1b - Jim Devlin (batted .313 in 1876)
2b - Jimmy Wood (batted .323 in 1876)
ss - Chick Fulmer (batted .202 in 1876)
3b - Ezra Sutton (batted .305 with New York in 1876)
lf - Tom York (batted .321 in 1876)
cf - Jim Clinton (batted .264 in 1876)
rf - George Bechtel (batted .257 in 1876)
p - Dan Collins (22-13, 2.64 ERA in 1876)
p - Candy Cummings (7-15, 3.58 ERA in 1876)
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