An excellent spring outing against the Dodgers Monday sealed the deal for Mike Clevinger making the starting rotation. It was basically a sure thing anyway, only injury or some kind of weird Steve Blass Disease type of thing threatening to derail his steady rise. The Indians’ regular season success across the board and Corey Kluber’s Cy Young campaign was impressive, and rightfully garnered any pitching attention that Andrew Miller's general dominance didn’t, but what Mike Clevinger did was something approaching historic.
On paper, maybe a 121 inning, 3.