We’re still super early in the baseball season, but man, it isn’t looking too hot for everyone’s chic breakout pick of 2015: the Cleveland Indians. The team is dead last in the AL Central at 10-17, Corey Kluber is winless (although his advanced peripherals indicate things aren’t that bad), Yan Gomes is still a month away from returning, and the defense? The defense has been abysmal, to say the least.
Per FanGraphs, the Indians rank 28th in both Defensive Runs Saved (-16) and Defense (-11.4). In fact, their defense is so bad that Sports Illustrated, who picked the Indians to win the World Series, wrote a story about it and posed the following question on Twitter:
@Indians Maybe we can reverse jinx you guys back to the top? Yeah…
— Sports Illustrated (@SInow) May 8, 2015
The social media manager of the Indians’ Twitter account decided to have some fun with the jab, and replied by threatening to cancel their SI subscription:
.@SInow pic.twitter.com/2nfWBVBJyz
— Cleveland Indians (@Indians) May 8, 2015
SI’s Twitter guy (or gal) didn’t seem too bothered:
@Indians ¯_(ツ)_/¯
— Sports Illustrated (@SInow) May 8, 2015
