Indians Confidential

Heading into Sunday the Indians stood 16 games under .500, but despite that and a team that appears headed nowhere fast, the club evidently is not going to push the panic button of firing coach Eric Wedge or any of the other coaches on the team.

The AP had the following today about Wedge’s job being safe for the rest of the season:

Eric Wedge’s job is safe for the rest of the season.

Cleveland general manager Mark Shapiro said Sunday that the manager and his coaching staff would remain in their jobs with the last-place Indians.

“As I’ve said all along, the responsibility for the disappointments of this season don’t rest on one person,” Shapiro said. “The responsibility is spread equally throughout the players, the front office, Eric and his staff.

“I thought it was important for the second half to remove a potential distraction that exists from that speculation.”

The Indians, expected to contend in the AL Central Division, are 33-49, the worst record in the league.

Wedge, in his seventh season as Indians manager, is signed through 2010. The Indians are 529-525 under Wedge. They won the Central in 2007 and came within a game of reaching the World Series and Wedge won AL Manager of the Year.

So while the rest of the city seems to want Wedge’s head for what is going to be another lost season, the club does not appear ready to do anything till at the least the offseason, and who knows even then if anything will be done?