It has become increasingly impossible to understand the Cleveland baseball team.
Night after night they risk getting no-hit, their rotation is as thin as it’s been in a decade, and now the injury bug keeps biting them over and over. And yet, here we are, approaching Memorial Day, and Cleveland is just barely out of first place in the division, somehow hounding a Chicago team that is by most measures one of the best in the game when they’re healthy.
Stats tell me they’re probably not that great. The win/loss record tells me otherwise. Game to game, the eye test tells me something different.