OK, put on the seat belts. This is going to be a rough ride.
Two days ago the Indians moved to 9 games over .500 after losing 2 of 3 to the Twins. An unfortunate glitch as we needed to bank all the wins we could against Minnesota and Detroit anticipating what came after that. It started out well, winning on Monday to get to 9 over. I was anticipating, at worst, that we would enter the Houston series at 9 games over.
But no.
The two losses yesterday left us 7 games over .500 entering a 7 game stretch where we play the two teams who are arguably the best teams in the AL, Houston and Tampa Bay.
There is a legitimate chance that we will head into playing KC next weekend with a .500 record.
Look, no one can expect us to have a playoff team this year. The FO screwed us by giving only 3 viable ML starting pitchers without spending significantly on upgrading the offense. Add to that some bad player decisions (Bauers) and some unexpected falling flat on their faces by prospects we needed to perform (McKenzie, Logan Allen, Owen Miller, Mercado, Daniel Johnson) and it was apparent why I would predict them to go 82-80.
Still, with smoke and mirrors and a dominating bullpen we entered yesterday's doubleheader looking like a Tampa Bay. That is, a team whose value was greater than the sum value of all its parts.
The next 7 days will tell. If we can somehow ESCAPE the next two series going 3-4 maybe we have a chance to still have a chance to avoid being sellers at the deadline.
But the chances look really like we could easily go 1-6 or 0-7 in the next two series.
Hopefully we can come up with some unexpected pitching and hitting performances.
Hold on. It's about to get bumpy!
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