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ndians won Corey Kluber’s Opening Day starts in 2017 and 2018 http://www.giantsfanproshop.com/authentic-evan-longoria-jersey , it wasn’t because of a rousing offensive performance. They scored a combined five runs in those two wins and only won because Kluber dominated the weak White Sox and Royals lineups. Kluber did the same today, holding the Twins to just two runs, but the offense couldn’t even put up a little bit of their bargain. Instead of two runs like they put up against Chris Sale on Opening Day 2017, the new-look Tribe lineup put up just two hits against potential breakout pitcher Jose Berrios. One, a fourth-inning double from Leonys Martin, and a single from Brad Miller in the eighth after after the Twins already scored a pair of runs and looked like they sealed game away. Miller’s hit barely made it over the glove of the Twins infield, but it was hit 97.5 miles per hour, which is an encouraging sign for Miller, and likely one of the reasons the Indians took a flyer on him with time winding down in spring training. Unfortunately, he and everyone else forgot how to make contact. Miller had a pair of strikeouts, just a fraction of the 13 whiffs by Indians batters today. Tyler Naquin was by far the worst offender, having struck out in each of his three at-bats and looking competent on not a single pitch. His first at-bat? Strikeout on three pitches. His second at-bat? Strikeout on three pitchers. He managed to take it to a full count in his final at-bat of the game, but swung on a pitch that couldn’t have been any further from the plate.Not to belabor the point too much, but Berrios was so deep in his head, and he dominated the rest of the lineup as well. The offense looked very reminiscent of early-2018 when they were doing nothing but popping up or striking out. Today they struck out 13 times and flied out 10 times — 23 of their allotted 27 outs.No one got hurt, though http://www.giantsfanproshop.com/authentic-evan-longoria-jersey , and there are still 161 more games to go. And Francisco Lindor will be back eventually. We can all cling to those truths while we wait for Jose Ramirez and everyone else to warm up literally and figuratively. On the mound, Kluber showed signs that he might be more on par with his performance last year than the pure strikeout machine of year’s past. He held Twins batters hitless through five innings, but relied mostly on weak hits over swings and misses, of which he only had 13. His four-seamer also averaged 92.2 miles per hour and peaked at 92.7, right in line with his approach on the mound last season. Still, it’s hard to argue with carrying a perfect game into the fifth inning and no-hitter into a sixth, especially against a lineup that’s supposed to shock people like the Twins. In other important news, the Indians sported their new block lettering navy away jerseys today and they looked great, even if they were a little on the Red Sox-y side. I may never get over the giant guitar on the sleeve, though a few runs here and there will help numb the cringe. It’s confusing at first, but it’s actually a simple system worth knowing"Even if you’re the most casual sports fan this side of the Golden State Warriors, you’ve probably heard that a baseball player has been optioned before. Maybe you knew what it meant, or maybe you just nodded your head and hoped no one would ask you how the Indians could option Shawn Armstrong 37 times in a single season.Well, fret not, for options are actually a pretty straightforward process, and after this quick overview you’ll be able to impress all your friends about your knowledge of how these little buggers actually work.The official definition from MLB is a pretty good place to start in understanding options. Essentially Willie McCovey Jersey , options are set up to allow a team to send a player on their 40-man roster to the minors and call him up worry free, while at the same time prohibiting them from abusing the process for several seasons and just stashing players in Triple-A. One of the most important things to know about options is that, when you hear someone say a player “has options left,” what they really mean is they have option years left. Using my only slightly exaggerated Shawn Armstrong example above, the Indians optioned the poor guy eight times in 2017 alone, in what was his final option year. He was optioned just twice in 2015 and five times in 2016, but they all count the same. Armstrong became very familiar with I-71 between Columbus and Cleveland because he had three full option years when he debuted in 2015. When he was optioned twice in his rookie season, that still only used one of his option years. Same goes for the five in 2016, and the eight trips to Columbus in 2017. If the Indians had held onto Armstrong and gave him another shot to stop walking everyone under the sun in 2018, they would have had to send him through waivers every single time he burned out his arm. That would have made him vulnerable to another team placing a claim on him and either receiving him outright from the Indians or working out a trade if the Indians don’t pull him back off waivers. He could possibly have cleared waivers in 2018, but a reliever with as much strikeout potential as Armstrong had (and still has), means it’s very unlikely he would have gone unclaimed for very long. He was traded in the offseason to the Mariners, instead. Options are an important factor this time of year because it often times determines which player will make a roster out of spring training if two choices are pretty similar. For example, if Player A has a lower ceiling than Player B, but Player A has an option year left while Player B is on the edge of needing more work in Triple-A, Player A will probably start the season in the majors Mel Ott Jersey , just because he has more flexibility. Player-A can fail terribly and still be optioned no problem in May, while Player B would be either stuck on the major-league roster and failing, or the team would run the risk of losing him in a waiver claim. Some other caveats, from FanGraphs’ own explainer, which is also worth a read: That’s all that’s to it. It sounds stupid simple, because it really is. Until recently, the only hard thing about options was finding out who actually had one. MLB doesn’t track it publicly anywhere and it’s not even on FanGraphs or Baseball-Reference pages for players. It was basically a guessing game and trying to paste together past transactions to find out who could still be sent down. But now we have Roster Resource, which is a great resource. For rosters. It breaks down just about everything you could want to know about the Indians or any other team. For the purpose of this post, and for anyone who has struggled in the past to keep track of options, the best thing is in fact it’s option tracking. According to Roster Resource’s numbers, here are some notable players who have an option year left and how many they have left as of March 12, 2019, sorted by position. CatchersKevin Plawecki - 0 Roberto Perez - 3Eric Haase - 2First basemen/designated hittersCarlos Santana - 0Hanley Ramirez - 0InfieldersJose Ramirez - 1Francisco Lindor - 3Jason Kipnis - 0Eric Stamets - 2Mike Freeman - 1OutfieldersLeonys Martin - 0Tyler Naquin - 2Jake Bauers - 2Jordan Luplow - 1Bradley Zimmer - 2Greg Allen - 2Oscar Mercado - 2Trayce Thompson - 0Matt Joyce - 0Starting pitchersCorey Kluber - 0Trevor Bauer - 0Carlos Carrasco - 0Mike Clevinger - 1Shane Bieber - 2Adam Plutko - 1Danny Salazar - 0Cody Anderson - 1Relief pitchersBrad Hand - 0Neil Ramirez - 0Jon Edwards - 2Adam Cimber - 3Oliver Perez - 0Tyler Clippard - 0Tyler Olson - 0Dan Otero - 0Nick Goody - 1Ben Taylor - 1

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