Indians preview: Tribe seeks better finish
After making all the right moves in 2016, Indians manager Terry Francona got a hip replacement and then spent time on the awards banquet circuit.
The winter is flying by.
“This has been, I think, officially the shortest offseason in history,” Francona said recently.
The Indians wouldn’t mind another brief one.
Despite losing an epic Game 7 of the World Series to the Chicago Cubs, Cleveland is poised to make a run at its first championship since 1948. With one of baseball’s best pitching staffs and a solid lineup now anchored by newly signed slugger Edwin Encarnacion, the Indians will enter the 2017 season as favorites to win the AL.