What We Learned

Hey, it's my 100th post! And no one's reading this anymore, judging by the comments section.

*sigh*

I would imagine that Mark Shapiro is currently on the phone with Kansas City telling them they can have Ben Francisco for Octavio Dotel, assuming that's a better deal than the AAA short stop the Dodgers are offering. Because I don't think the Tom Mastny experiment is working out.

And, of course, let's just get this out of the way now:

Welcome to the Majors, Aaron Laffey!

Clearly, there's no way the Indians can keep Cliff Lee on their roster. Really, the argument with Victor and the sarcastic tipping of his hat wouldn't matter if he didn't out and out suck this year. It's kind of mind boggling.

Here's hoping a guy who started the year in Akron can do better.

I would also have to guess that a choice on whether to keep Gutierrez or Francisco became less of a big decision after the last two nights.

Hopefully, the Tribe can get that deal done (throw in Cabrera for good measure!) and we can get some kind of a hold on that bullpen. Then we can bring Choo up, who everyone likes.

Now all we have to do is hope Jake turns it around.

That said, according ESPN, the STO guys were wrong; Santana pitches on Sunday against Sabathia. Jake will face off against Garza on Saturday and with the way the Twins have been hitting lately, this could be a chance for him to start building himself back up.

Sixty games left. We're going to need to win close to forty of those.