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Don’t let that distract you from the fact that the Minnesota Twins blew an 11.5-game lead

Look upon the 2019 Cleveland Indians’ Opening Day lineup and weep:

  1. Leonys Martín, CF
  2. José Ramírez, 3B
  3. Tyler Naquin, RF
  4. Carlos Santana, 1B
  5. Hanley Ramírez, DH
  6. Jake Bauers, LF
  7. Jordan Luplow, LF
  8. Greg Allen, LF
  9. Roberto Pérez, C
  10. Brad Miller, 2B
  11. Eric Stamets, SS
  12. Max Moroff, SS

It looked bad from the onset, but few could have predicted the kind of total implosion we’d see so early on in the season, not to mention the ill-timed rise of the dinger-crushing Minnesota Twins that put the Tribe in an 11.