A full season of Andrew Miller is just one reason to believe in the 2017 Cleveland Indians.Elsa/Getty Images
It doesn't get much more painful than being one win away from your first World Series championship in 68 years and then losing three straight games to blow it. That smarts.
But the Cleveland Indians didn't miss their shot.
With Opening Day still somewhere in the distance, it's a bit soon to be anointing the Indians kings of anything for 2017. But they're a contender, all right. And the path ahead of them looks even smoother than the one that led them to 94 wins and a 10-2 record in their first dozen postseason games last year.