It’s exciting times for baseball in Cleveland. The hope-n-hype engines are running full speed with a full-fledged star in José Ramírez, some budding excellence up and down the roster, and what appears to be a bursting farm system ready to feed a seemingly never-ending flow of talent into Progressive Field.
It’s fun, exciting, and yet a bit disheartening that there’s so little chance for the broader baseball fanbase to get a taste of what’s coming. They got a good introduction to Ramírez, Andrés Giménez, and Emannuel Clase in the All-Star Game, but the mostly lacking presence in October is restricting a larger cultural impact.