The pain of small market fandom is watching your favorite players — in this case Carlos Santana — leave for greener pastures in free agency. It creates the annual winter scramble to find a way to replace that production, which helps people writing and opining on the team. But it creates uncertainty and frustration among the faithful. Santana must be replaced.
The Cleveland Indians need something resembling what Santana posted this year — 3 fWAR 141 second half wRC+, great first base defense — to tack close to what they did a year ago.