Can a team advance in the postseason without any of their three top elite starters at full strength? That's what the Indians are going to try to prove when they go up against the dangerous Red Sox lineup in the American League Division Series (starting Thursday at 8 p.m. ET on TBS) without the services of Carlos Carrasco (finger) or Danny Salazar (forearm), and with ace Corey Kluber taking the hill in Game 2 for the first time since straining his quad last Monday.
Still, we've been underestimating Cleveland all year, dating back to this past offseason, when its outfield was deemed unacceptably weak .