Ideal Lineups: American League East

I discovered a fun tool over at Baseball Musings the other day that analyzes any nine-man lineup, and suggests an "optimal" lineup. If you enter the players name, on-base-percentage, and slugging average, the tool will also predict the average number of runs scored per game. Needless to say, it is a very fun tool. I found myself messing around with it for hours over the weekend. I found the lineups for every team over at RotoTimes , so I punched in every teams lineup, got the stats over at Baseball Reference , and I was off. Now, before I get run over with comments saying things like I have bad information, or that I am missing key players, or that I am completely loony, I think it is time for a disclaimer paragraph: These lineups were taken from RotoTimes on March 29. Anything that has happened since then was not taken into account when I put this together. This list does not include injured players. For example, Detroit's Curtis Granderson, who would be a starter, is not ... [link]