SS- You said Everett is about .100 OPS points below Peralta.

Peralta's OPS last year was .130 points higher than Everett's career OPS.  Evertt's OPS last year, at age 30, was another .50 points below that.  We already know that Evertt's injury did not negatively affect his performance before he missed games because it was a sudden injury.  So IF Everett recovered to his career line, which is a big if at his age, he would still be short of what you are giving us credit for.

RF - I disagree that we have the advantage with Cuddyer.  Cuddyer and Gutierrez had identical OPS's last year, Gutierrez with a bit more power, Cuddyer with a bit more patience.  Gutierrez was only 25 last year, and in his first real go around in the majors.Cuddyer was in his prime at 28 last year and has played in the majors for several years.  Any supposed expected gains from Cuddyer due to injury are no more likely than Gutierrez's improvements due to experience.

CF - Both Lofton and Cameron had OPS quite a bit further below Sizemore's than .60 points last year.  Sizemore is still young, while the other two are old and going in the opposite direction.

1B/DH - You said Morneau is nearly as good as Hafner.

Hafner's career line:  .290/.398/.552
Morneau's career line:  .276/.340/.498

Hafner's career AVERAGE is arguably better than Morneau's breakthrough MVP season.

For Dh, I like Kubel's upside a lot hear too (especially after that torrid .303/.379/.511 second half line last year), and even though i expect Monroe to steal a lot of at bats, I think with him playing almost entirely against lefties, he should put up pretty good numbers as well.

However, Ryan Garko hit .290/.358/.483 last season (which was almost identical to the line he put up the previous year in only part of a season in his first year in the bigs, and, you will not, very close to our esteemed Justin Morneau's career line).  Garko will be 27 this year, starting only his second full year in the majors, and ALSO had a hot second half last year (hitting .286/.352/.502), so a healthy chunk of improvement is a distinct possibility for him as well.

Bottom line, despite my belief in Jason Kubel, if we received a hitting line from our DH's this year matching Garko's line from last year, I think we would have to be absolutely thrilled with that.

C - I agree that Martinez and Mauer are a push offensively.  Martinez has put up a very consistent line over the last several years, with a final OPS lining up very near .860.  Mauer's career line is very similar to Martinez's but with a bit more patience at the cost of some power.

For Mauer to match that .860 OPS Martinez can be expected to produce, he'd have to raise his OPS by about 50 points.  I say Mauer is likely to do that.  All that will take would be a 20 point BA increase (showing itself in OPS as a 20 point OBP increase) leaving Mauer hitting .315, and a 30 point SLG increase, which would be done if just a couple of those extra hits fell in for doubles.

Defensively, obviously, it's a different story, and that's a big reason why Mauer is such a fantastic all around player, but your claim was purely offensive.

A case could be made that much of the difference between our offense and Cleveland's can be made up through our superior defense.  We have a distinct advantage defensively over the Indians at C, SS, and probably both corner outfield positions (Cuddyer has average range, Young has athletic range, both have cannon arms).  The Indians have a moderate advantage at 2B (I believe Carera was touted as a defensive talent) and a HUGE advantage in CF, although this disparity would be cut down to a healthy amount if we signed Mike Cameron.

So while an argument could be made that the entire contribution of our position players will be near that of Cleveland's next year, I cannot see it as accurate that we are likely to match them offensively.