Offensive Woes Continue Across the Board
You could spend hours lamenting the fact that the Indians offense continues to do next to nothing, which at some point in the coming weeks is going to force GM Mark Shaprio and the organization to come to the conclusion that hard decisions are going to have to be made. Looking up and down the lineup, the team simply is not doing what it needs to do at the plate, and manager Eric Wedge can talk all he wants about what is happening “behind the scenes” and how hard the players are working, but the bottom line is that the team is not close to being a contender with the offense in the tailspin it is in now.
Here are some numbers to chew on from the offensive side as the team gets ready to wrap up their series in Chicago tonight:
* The team has scored three runs of less in 25 of it’s 46 games
* During their five-game losing streak – the team has scored a total of 12 runs (2.4)
* Going into last night Asdrubal Cabrera is hittin .087 (2-for-23) in his last seven games
* Victor Martinez continues to be in a power slump, no homers yet in 2008 and just 8 doubles in 42 hits despite hitting .304. He hit 25 homers last season with 40 doubles.
* The team is hitting an awful .234, averaging 4.0 runs per game
* Travis Hafner has hit a total of 28 homers in his last 194 games, this after hitting 42 in 129 games in 2006.
Matt has covered Major League Baseball and the "other two" Pro teams in Cleveland since 1994. He has been on the beat of the Indians in full-time mode since 1996, working for various raido and print networks around the country.
