CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Indians consider their catching unit to be a position of strength.
"We have two really good, high-quality, capable major-league catchers," said Chris Antonetti, Cleveland's president of baseball operations.
It's safe to say, though, that the Indians are counting on healthier, more productive seasons for Yan Gomes and Roberto Perez in 2017.
A quick recap as to how the 2016 campaign unfolded for the doomed duo:
The guy who couldn't buy a hit suffered a shoulder injury after that bizarre chicken sacrifice, an implausible sequence which forced the guy who had suffered a thumb injury -- the other guy's backup -- to come back sooner than intended, and as it turned out, that guy couldn't buy a hit, either.