Indians Week in Review (Week 1)

I would prefer something better than a 3-3 record to start the season, but hey, at least we're not the Tigers at 0-6 (Ouch!).

It's tough to truly assess our performance since we only had our true lineup for one game. Victor Martinez's injury on opening day seemingly put our offense into a funk as we had back-to-back games where our guys had 10 strikeouts. Victor is set to return to the lineup tonight, so let's hope that sets everything back in order and allows us to start producing runs again because we won't get as lucky as we did yesterday in winning with only two runs.

From the pitching side, it was another mixed bag. Fausto, Westbrook and (surprisingly) Cliff Lee all had strong outings. Byrd, however, was very erratic on Friday, which is atypical of him. My guess is that it was a one time thing and he'll be back to his normal stuff in his next start. And then there's C.C. who had two lackluster starts. I know he's got the goods, so he better start showing them soon. Then again, if he keeps pitching this way, his asking price may plummet and we may actually be able to resign him next season.

This week we've got the Angels for a three game set in LA and then back home for another series with the A's starting on Friday. The Angels are facing injury problems and the A's aren't very good (despite just taking two out of three from us). If we get back on track, we should have a very good week. Until next week, let's go Tribe!