Cleveland series preview: Coasting

Cleveland has finally begun to separate themselves from the rest of the miserable American League Central. They’re nine games up on the Twins, who are now ten games under .500. Cleveland still owns the worst record of any division leader, but there isn’t any team coming for them, so they can probably coast to the postseason.

Game times and pitching matchups are as follows:

Cleveland at Kansas City pitching matchups

Pitcher G IP K K% BB BB% ERA FIP xFIP SIERA fWAR rWAR Pitcher G IP K K% BB BB% ERA FIP xFIP SIERA fWAR rWAR Game 1 Corey Kluber 17 113.1 115 26.9 13 3.0 2.54 3.29 2.79 2.94 2.5 4.2 Jakob Junis 16 96.1 90 21.8 27 6.5 4.67 5.24 4.41 4.05 0.0 0.8 Game 2 Shane Bieber 4 24.1 27 26.2 4…