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Series 6: Indians@Mariners 4/15-4/17

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Karinchak up by September at the latest at this rate.

Trending up for sure.
What's the word on Sandlin? Getting minor league injury info is next to impossible.

Kyle Nelson is another pen arm I like. He's a bit further away at Lynchburg, but misses bats at nearly the same rate as Karinchak with a lot less walks.
 
It is early but the bullpen has looked great so far.

-We know what we have in Hand
-Cimber struck out 7 batters in 20 IP in Cleveland last year. He has 6 through 6-2/3 this year
-Olson and Otero are better than they showed in 2018
-Wittgren has looked impressive
-Clippard is on the way soon. 60 IP dating back to 2009

Thing is, we are in 1st place and were very handicapped and had what we thought 2 of our 3 best starters look like shit and the 4th get hurt.

Now we swept the best offense in game, allowing 2 runs a game, Cookie looked awesome, Kluber should be fine, our bullpen is better than we thought, Lindor a top 5 player in the game is almost ready to come back....and some time Clevinger will be back to help in the 2nd half post all star break.

Things are looking up for our tribe. BTW, even with our health issues and jose yet to find his grove, we are on pace to win 99 games and we have just started to tap the potential of this team when healthy.
 
It is early but the bullpen has looked great so far.

-We know what we have in Hand
-Cimber struck out 7 batters in 20 IP in Cleveland last year. He has 6 through 6-2/3 this year
-Olson and Otero are better than they showed in 2018
-Wittgren has looked impressive
-Clippard is on the way soon. 60 IP dating back to 2009

To add to the Cimber stuff.

When he was with San Diego, and pitching well, he was inducing swinging strikes 11% of the time (which is solid). When he got to Cleveland, that dropped to 6% (which sucks).

This year, he has rebounded to 13.8% swinging strikes (which is great).
 

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