The first half of the Cleveland Indians’ season was, sometimes inexplicably, baseball. Eighty-eight games of trying to recover from a gaping, self-inflicted wound, winding up in actually sort of doing so.
Five and a half games behind a team that was the best in baseball until recently, a lot of work has already been done, and obviously there is more to do.
Naturally, baseball will correct itself, and regression seems to be on the side of the Indians. The Minnesota Twins were unsustainably good for a long stretch, while Terry Francona’s bunch had underperformed compared to projections.