I am beginning to worry about the offense. Following a 2 run showing in a loss to the BoSox the Indians have now put up 98 runs in their last 21 games (13-8). That averages to 4.67 runs per game, not too shabby. For those of you who know statistics, you understand that raw averages can be deceiving. Such is the case with the Tribe. 31 of those 98 runs were scored in 19-1 thrashing of the Royals and Sunday's 12-4 romp over the Reds (this means too large of a standard deviation). That leaves 67 runs scored in 19 games (11-8) or an average of 3.53. Yeah, that's not very good. The American League average for the season in 4.23 and only the lowly Twins came into Tuesday averaging fewer than 3.53 runs/game. Now the Indians still have the best record in baseball and their six game lead on Detroit is nearly twice the margin that any other division leader sports, but we should be mindful. Especially with
Travis Hafner out for at least a month. Especially with
Grady Sizemore nursing two sore knees. Especially with
Carlos Santana batting .203 and
Shin-Soo Choo lingering at .244. Most especially with our phenom starter (
Alex White) out until at least August and our "ace" now sporting a 3-5 record and a 4.73 ERA.
Oh
Fausto. In a year when so much of the team's talent has progressed, you, sir, seem to have regressed. Again. For a team that often needs to scratch and claw and for every baserunner, let alone every run, the slop of the second and the disgrace of allowing a home run to
86-year old catcher are simply unforgivable. Get your stinkin' head screwed on straight or the depth of pitching in this system will catch up to you before you realize that you are throwing long relief in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Do your job Fausto! Or get the fuck out of town.
It was nice to see
Travis Buck hit the home run off of Papelbon.
Cheers.
