Tom's Blog

As we get closer to Independence Day, the Indians are still not playing the way they should be playing by now.  When the only off-season move you make is picking up Jamey Carroll instead of maybe making changes in the pitching staff, you are going to have problems. 

The starting pitching is slightly better as CC Sabathia is pitching better, but without Fausto Carmona and Paul Byrd pitching very poor...then that's part the problem.  The bullpen for the most part is very awful.  Other than Masahide Kobayashi, which at times has sat around in the bullpen waiting to pitch, the rest of the bullpen has been horrible.

Which brings me to the offense...which has been mostly a mystery of why has it been so lacking considering the talent we have.  Its about time that Travis Hafner was put on the DL a few weeks ago since there has been a problem for a while.  And the other big mystery is with Victor Martinez and no home runs prior to him being put on the disabled list too.  Its pretty bad when your lead off hitter is also one of the team leaders in home runs. Then there is the lack of runners on base which if the management thinks that Josh Barfield is the answer once he comes back from his injury...they are very mistaken.  Maybe the Indians should of done a little more during the off-season, as well as sticking with Astrubel Cabrera longer (surprise... he is hitting in Buffalo) and finally playing Franklin Gutierrez more than they had been from mid-May to Mid-June.  Ben Francisco better start hitting more or he will be sitting too...or be shipped back to Buffalo too.

Hopefully, the Indians will begin to play better and win two or more in a row without losing many more games and get back into the race, or else the line will get longer for the CC Sabathia sweepstakes.