Zach Plesac is a pleasant surprise

Evan Habeeb-USA TODAY SportsYou could call Zach Plesac’s rise to Cleveland Indians starter meteoric if you wanted.

Between surgery and recovery this is only his second season as a professional starter, and if not for tragedy and bad luck he likely wouldn’t even sniff the Tribe rotation. Like a reverse Larry David, though, everything kind of went right for him, at the expense of others. So he’s here, and while he might not be amazing, that doesn’t mean he’s hard to root for.

You look at the numbers, and absent the solid 3.50 ERA he’s literally barely average as a pitcher. He’s only got 50 innings of major league pitching under his belt so leaping to conclusions is a bit unfair, but between the…