Spring training is over, and the regular season won’t begin on time. While this is depressing from a sheer baseball standpoint, there are players around the league who are going to benefit from a slowdown in activity over the next few weeks. The two most prominent such players on the Cleveland Indians‘ roster are pitchers Mike Clevinger and Carlos Carrasco, neither of whom was tracking toward being ready for Opening Day.
Clevinger continues to progress from knee surgery, while Carrasco was recently shut down due to elbow inflammation.
The Indians were unlikely to rush Clevinger or Carrasco back regardless of how thin the starting rotation becomes with even one of them on the shelf.