OK, I've had enough!

Hey, Tito, I know.   Your bullpen sucks.   It stinks.  I know.  Your ownership and GM did a screwed up job getting you enough bullpen depth.   This is puzzling because they know you and know that you will only use players you trust and that you have a very short leash for guys you don't trust.  Your management team should have known this and should have not given you any cause to do screwy things.

But in no way does that give you the right to burn out your starters.

Kluber 116 pitches.  Bauer 122 pitches.  In April?   Really?  Plus Bauer has been allow to throw over 110 pitches in each of his last three starts!

Do anyone remember how Kluber faded in the post-season?  He was beat up physically and, in my opinion, his body just gave out on him.  So we SHOULD be careful with him.  Instead, we let him throw 116 pitches, a number topped only once in 2017.

We are lucky we got him back for this season!  If Francona keeps this up Kluber won't even make it to October before he suffers a season-ending injury.

In my opinion, this is really two-faced of Francona.   He overuses his starters trying to win games but he continues to start Tomlin and play Kipnis, both of whom have cost us multiple games this year.

In my opinion here is what is wrong:

1.  Ownership did not give the Indians the money to build a good team.   That is why we are, as I said since Shaw left, one shutdown right handed reliever short.  Some were available in free agency but we chose not to go for any of them.   We are also one right-handed hitting outfielder short of a good lineup.   This has made the offense anemic which, in turn, has caused Francona to go too long with his starting pitching.  We could have solved these problems over the winter but stuck to our budget.

So, Francona is trying to limit the number of pitchers he has to use because he has no confidence in his bullpen arms after Miller and Allen.  But any of us who watched the postseason the last two years and how he used his bullpen outside of Miller, Allen and Shaw should know this.

But this is killing his starters and his bullpen.   Miller is already down.   Allen is not pitching that well.  And the starters are being abused because Francona can't count on McAllister or Goody for any meaningful innings.

This is how Tito did HIMSELF in in Boston.   He catered to the veterans.  He didn't manage his roster well.   Someone in ownership needs to sit down and have a talk with the manager.   These are valuable assets that he is abusing.   We can't afford this type of abuse to starters who we expect to carry us into October.