This start to the 2017 season likely wasn’t quite what Indians fans had in mind coming off of a run to Game 7 of the World Series, the return of a healthy roster and the biggest free-agent addition — in dollars — in franchise history.
It isn’t that the Indians have experienced any sort of a descent. It’s just that there hasn’t been the type of ascent that might have been expected or hoped for, with the Indians quickly gaining a firm grasp on the American League Central and never letting go.
They have spent most of the year above .