Things the Indians need to do:
1. Trade Corey Kluber. Big game, lots of fans in the stands, and he chokes. He is thus not a winner, and not someone fans will come out to see. Maybe they can get a prospect for him.
2. Fire Micky Callaway. Callaway noted a week ago that the team noticed Kluber was throwing a little across his body but since he had been doing so well they just left it. He has now gotten out of sorts and it is because Callaway sat on his hands and did nothing. Time to find a new team where you can ignore mechanical flaws, Callaway, while you sit back in your lounge chair with your mai tai in hand.
3. Fire Terry Francona. He has done a terrible job of getting wins out of a team that went to the playoffs last year. He lost one guy of any value, Scott Kazmir, and he was the 5th starter. In his place he recieved Carlos Carrasco who has defied the horrible coaching on the Tribe and rebounded to be useful.
4. Stop playing so many rookies. In a pivotal game, on Labor Day, with the entire season in the balance, Francona goes and plays 5 rookies (Ramirez, Aguilar, Holt, Walters, Perez). Then the rookie pitchers went and put the game out of reach (Price, Adams). Teams do not win packed-house, crucial games with lots of fans with a bunch fo rookies. Season wasted on Francona's love of the youngsters.
5. Stop playing so many vets. All of these guys are washed up and yet Francona keeps running them out there. Bourn, Aviles, Slumptana. He steals a crucial devellopmental AB from Aguilar yesterday by pinch hitting Giambi. Francona falls in love wth his vets and plays them even when he shouldn't. His love affair with Mike Aviles is becoming absurd, they need a restraining order on this.
6. Prepare for Francona's replacement. Because there is no way a two-time World Series champion stays on here with how awful this team is in big-game, packed-house, Labor Day day games that the team plays after flying in at 4am in the morning after MLB had them as a Sunday night game that lo and behold went extra innings. No way the Tribe hangs on to him, he probably quits in disgust after the Tribe misses the playoffs.
These are the things that the Tribe needs to do if they ever plan on winning anything. As it stands, I am amazed they are even over .500, let alone not the worst team in baseball after the game we witnessed yesterday. I have a feeling this game was the norm and the previous month was the outlier.