All of these assessments missed the fact that Cleveland has a large number of young talent, a considerable amount of MLB experience or at the forefront of MLB. Most of them have strong prospective bloodlines.
Gavin Williams, Logan Allen and Luis Ortiz are all in the top 100 and have some experience.
Among the position players, Brayan Rocchio, Bo Naylor, Kyle Manzardo, Gabriel Arias and Tyler Freeman are all in the top 100 and now have some experience. An organization should expect children to think highly of their children when they gain experience.
Then, Juan Brito, Travis Bazzana and Chase Delauter, who has been injured, are on the verge of making their debut.
While an organization can’t expect any child to improve, it can develop plans based on several of them. But if you don’t play with them, it won’t happen.
Santana may not offset the loss of Josh Naylors’ offense, but Manzardo’s production increase will fill the gap. Other children may not explode, but some comprehensive advancement will improve the overall offense of the guardian…the smallest progress is expected.
Senior season results have been signed by major or multiple free agents. But Cleveland, even if they do have a larger budget, may not need to increase the position of outside players, as improvements already exist.
When it comes to pitching, everyone now knows that starting to pitch with a young, cost-controlled start is the hardest thing to get. Cleveland managed to acquire four of them, two with MLB experience.
That itself achieved a very high result.
