One series, one win, a grand total of two runs separating the Cleveland Indians from a sweep. That’s how the Tribe’s first series of the season went against the Seattle Mariners. There was a lot of good, and a bit of bad, but none of it is worth overreacting to after 1.9 percent of the season.
That doesn’t mean we can’t evaluate what happened, in the context of fun small samples.
We already know that losing Carlos Santana wasn’t a popular move; even people who spent the better part of a decade heckling the music legend for not swinging enough or being “clutch” enough were sad to see him go after belting more than 50 home runs over the last two seasons.