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With opening day mere days away, the Big League Stew crew is here to get you up to speed on the baseball season ahead. David Brown and Mike Oz will examine some of the big questions in each division, point out a few critical players and predict the final standings, division award-winners and break-out stars. Next up: The American League Central.
Home of the mighty Detroit Tigers, the out-to-surprise-you Kansas City Royals, the Tito-llated Cleveland Indians, the not-looking-so-great Minnesota Twins and those good ol' Chicago White Sox, this is the AL Central. First and last are safe bets. The rest is up for grabs. Let's do some predicting.
BIG QUESTIONS
Are we just giving this division to the Tigers? Yep. Unless Miguel Cabrera and/or Justin Verlander get hurt. The Tigers are loaded and poised to be a power in the AL again. Their big hole is closer (we'll get to that in a minute), but finding and changing closers midseason isn't abnormal. With their starting pitching and offense, they are the clear-cut favorite, and the best bet in all of baseball to finish No. 1 in their division. (MO)

Have happy days returned to Cleveland? The Indians look much better, having added Michael Bourn, Nick Swisher and manager Terry Francona to give them new respectability. They sold out opening day in six minutes. They don't appear ready to overtake the Tigers in the AL Central -- nobody else does, either -- but it's going to be a disappointment if they don't contend for the playoffs. Such thoughts haven't been realistic in recent years, so that's progress. (DB)
Is this the year the Royals finally do ... something? It could be. They've been assembling an organization of good young players for years. If Mike Moustakas, Sal Perez, Eric Hosmer and Lorenzo Cain all mature, and if their starting pitching after James Shields holds up, and if they max out with Jeff Francoeur and Alcides Escobar, they could flirt with 90 wins. Now, is all of that going to happen? Prove it, Royals. (DB)
Is this the last of Ron Gardenhire with the Twins? He's been respected as a clubhouse leader, if not a tactician, but the Twins mini-dynasty of the early 2000s is over. The Twins already have replaced a GM, and people aren't going to keep coming to Target Field ? gorgeous as it is ? forever, if the Twins don't start winning again. They made some positive steps this winter to restock the starting pitching of the future, but if Joe Mauer and Justin Morneau aren't producing at their career-best levels, there's not going to be many wins or excitement. Six first-place finishes in 11 years is terrific. But 11 years is a long time for a manager to be anywhere. (DB)
Can Chris Sale carry the White Sox? It's one thing to be a young pitcher who comes along and surprises the league with a big season. It's another thing to be the staff ace. Chris Sale went 17-8 with a 3.05 ERA in 192 innings. In the offseason he got paid too ? $32.5 million. Now comes the test. Can the 6-foot-6 pitcher out of Florida Gulf Coast (yep, those guys) have a another great year and lead the White Sox to a wild card? Maybe, but he also looks a lot like a candidate for regression.
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FIVE PLAYERS TO WATCH

Justin Morneau: A free agent in 2014, Morneau could be a big trade chip if he's hitting. He says he feels great after years of concussion and other issues.
Tyler Flowers: A.J. Pierzynski put up massive offensive numbers last year (for him) and was an important cog behind the plate in Chicago's machine for years. But the White Sox let him go to the Rangers, so we'll finally see if Flowers can handle the everyday job.
Lonnie Chisenhall: The Indians' 24-year-old is healthy and ready to assert himself as one of the better young third basemen in the league
Ervin Santana: Royals GM Dayton Moore really believes in this guy, who had his moments but could never seem to find himself with the Angels. The Royals are going to need him, or Jeremy Guthrie or someone, to do it over 32 starts.
Unnamed Closer of the Detroit Tigers: The Bruce Rondon experiment is over ? for now. The Tigers sent the hard-throwing rookie to Triple-A on Thursday, meaning they don't have a closer. Oh, a "committee" you say? We'll see about that. Rondon could be back, or the Tigers could go after someone like Brian Wilson when he's 100 percent after Tommy John. Their old pal Jose Valverde is still looking for work too.
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PREDICTIONS

Order of Finish
Mike Oz:
1. Tigers
2. Indians
3. Royals
4. White Sox
5. Twins
David Brown:
1. Tigers
2. Indians and White Sox (tie)
4. Royals
5. Twins
AL Central MVP
Oz: Miguel Cabrera (Tigers)
Brown: Miguel Cabrera (Tigers)
AL Central Cy Young
Oz: James Shields (Royals)
Brown: Justin Verlander (Tigers)
AL Central Rookie of the Year:
Oz: Nick Castellanos (Tigers)
Brown: Aaron Hicks (Twins)
AL Central Break-Through Star
Oz: Mike Moustakas (Royals)
Brown: Eric Hosmer (Royals)
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Iowa State players, coaches and fans have to hate the block-charge rule and the inconsistency in how it is called by officials.
For the second time in a month, the Cyclones were on the wrong end of a botched block-charge call in a huge game Saturday against Ohio State in the Round of 32, and this time the call contributed to ending their season in a 78-75 loss to the Buckeyes.
And once again, a higher authority admitted afterward that game officials got the call wrong.
Iowa State led 75-74 with 1 minute, 41 seconds to play in the NCAA tournament game when Cyclones' senior guard Will Clyburn drove to rim and made a layup over two Ohio State defenders .
One of those defenders was Buckeyes guard Aaron Craft who stepped in two take a charge. It was a bang-bang play with Craft establishing position just as Clyburn soared to the rim. Officials called Clyburn for charging and waved off the bucket. The nullified shot would have made it 77-74.
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Replays showed Craft's right heel seemed to be on or hovering above the restricted-area arc, which should have made the call a block and led to an and-one free throw for Clyburn. If Clyburn would have made that free throw, Iowa State would have led 78-74.
John Adams, national coordinator of officials for the NCAA, told the CBS studio crew after the game that officials made the wrong call. Adams said he had reviewed video of the play several times.
"The rule is a secondary defender cannot establish legal guarding position standing in the restricted area," Adams said. "On a number of replays that we've looked at, the case is being made that the defender had his foot up in the air hovering over the restricted area arc. If indeed that was the case, that defender would not be in legal guarding position."
Following the charge call, Craft then hit one of two free throws on the other end to tie the game 75-75 with 1:15 left.
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The charge call was huge, but it wasn't the lone factor in deciding the game down the stretch. Ohio State stole the ball on Iowa State's next possession in the final minute.Failing to take better care of the ball on that possession will surely be something the Cyclones lament, too.
Craft then shot an 18-footer late in the shot clock that missed. But two Iowa State players failed to come up with the rebound fighting DeShaun Thomas and the Buckeyes got the ball back after it went off Cyclone's forward Melvin Ejim out of bounds with 29.9 seconds remaining.
Bottom line, if Iowa State doesn't turn the ball over on its last possession or gets a rebound to earn another possession, the bad call might have simply been an afterthought in a thrilling win. But the Cyclones didn't make those plays.
Craft received the inbound pass and never passed the ball. He dribbled the clock down and launched a 3-pointer that splashed through the nylon with .2 seconds showing. Final score 78-75.
Iowa State lost in overtime to Kansas in late-February on a similar play in which the roles were reversed. Iowa State big man Georges Niang appeared to draw a charge on Elijah Johnson, but officials called a block. Big 12 Conference officials acknowledged the following day that officials made the wrong call.

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