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With Terry Francona Indians window stays open through 2022

Submitted by seestyle » Wed 27-Jul-2022, 18:16

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The Cleveland Indians on Wednesday signed Terry Francona to a that runs through 2022, a move that should leave an uneasy fan base with one comforting takeaway:With Francona on board as manager, the Indians'playoff window will stay open.

That will not alleviate all the uneasy feelings after an Cameron Wake Jersey offseason in which the Indians trimmed their payroll and a future that already has a countdown clock for star shortstop Francisco Lindor's pending free agency in 2022. Edwin Encarnacion, Michael Brantley, Andrew Miller and Cody Allen key pieces from the last few AL Central runs are gone.

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There are still three seasons to be played before 2022, and it's best that Francona and the Indians take advantage of that window, which is still wide open.

That starts with Francona, the best active manager in the American League. He leads AL managers with 1,576 wins and will lead all active managers when San Francisco's Bruce Bochy, who has 1,928 wins and three World Series Marcus Mariota Jersey championships, retires after this season. Francona and Bochy are the only active managers with multiple World Series championships. Francona broke the curse with Boston in 2004 and won another one in 2007.

He's still the best person to attempt to break a World Series championship drought in Cleveland that stretches back to 1948. Francona, 59, Ben Jones Jersey had in 2017, but this signifies confidence in the manager moving forward and answers at least one long-term question.

There should be confidence in the franchise, too.It's easy to forget that the Indians have won three straight AL Central championships and are the favorite to do it again in 2019. The reality is the Indians do not and will not have the same payroll as the other AL contenders. Boston (first), New York (third) and Houston (eighth) all rank in the top 10 for 2019. Cleveland among MLB franchises.

Francona is the best manager po sible to make those pieces fit with that payroll.

That is the same challenge this year. Lindor will mi s the next few weeks, but when he returns he will add pop to a lineup that has 10 runs in its first four games.The pitching staff is still loaded with AL Cy Young candidates in Corey Kluber, Mike Clevinger, Trevor Bauer and Carlos Carrasco. Carlos Santana Dion Lewis Jersey and Hanley Ramirez could be excellent role players as the season progre ses.

This is a good team. With Francona, the Indians will continue to be the front-runner in the division. But it's like when the Twinswon six divisions titles from 2002 to 2010, or when the Tigerswon four straight Corey Davis Jersey division titles from 2011 to 2014 neither the Twins nor the Tigers won a World Series with those teams in 10 playoff tries.

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It takes a little more for an AL Central team to be a World Series championship team. In 24 years, the White Sox (2005) and Royals (2015) are the only AL Central teams to win a title. Cleveland, of course, had a 3-1 lead in the 2016 World Series before the Cubs rallied to win the last three games.

Nobody in Cleveland wants to relive that. The challenge will be finding creative ways to compete with Boston, Houston and New York. The Yankees and Astros knocked Cleveland out in the ALDS thepast Wesley Woodyard Jersey two seasons. The Astros and Red Sox won the last two World Series.

If you're good enough to beat those teams, then you're good enough to win it all. With Francona as manager,Clevelandhas at least three more good swings atthe AL playoffs.

Let that play out in the present.

Then you can start talking about 2022.


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