Well, this is going to be an interesting season.
On one hand, the Indians could continue not to hit, their pitching could continue to lose pitcher after pitcher and they could finish below .500
On the other hand, Ramirez could hit like the Ramirez of old, Lindor could find his stroke, Santana could continue to be consistently productive, Kipnis could start hitting like he did the second half of last year, Gonzalez could hit at an above replacement level, Mercado could come up from the minors and provide a needed spark in the OF and Naquin and Luplow could form the tandem we thought they might. Plus Zimmer could come back and provide a spark.
On that same other hand, Clevinger and Kluber could come back earlier than expected, the patched up rotation could hold up well enough to keep us near the top of the division for a while and the bullpen could get better with Oliver Perez hitting his stride, with Salazar coming back strong as a long reliever/setup guy and with Sandlin and Karinchak coming up from the minors to replace the weaker members of the pen and provide some shutdown setup men even better than Bryan Shaw in his prime.
A 162 game ML season is a grind and a marathon. No one knows what will happen. So many different paths things could take depending on what is going on around them.
Wouldn't it be amazing if, with all this angst and all the difficulties, this is the year all the stars line up and we win the World Series! And wouldn't it be great if CarGo got the hit that wins the Series giving Karinchak the win!
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