Sportsbooks online feature odds on the Cleveland Indians as underdogs most of the time and this season has gone so poorly that the team fired manager Eric Wedge. It was not all bad for Wedge in his career at Cleveland but the 2009 season has been a bust. Cleveland has been a team to avoid for the most part when wagering at the offshore sportsbook this season.
Sportsbooks online had the Indians as a contender in the American League Central before the season began, but Cleveland simply didn’t have any pitching. The Indians were not always a bad team in sports betting under Wedge. He has the fifth-most wins of anyone in team history as offshore sportsbook stats indicated. He is one of only four Cleveland managers to win a playoff series and just two years ago in offshore sportsbook action he was the American League Manager of the Year. In 2007, the Indians won 96 games and held a 3-1 lead in the sportsbooks online for the ALCS before losing three in a row to Boston.
The Indians have made just one sportsbooks online playoff appearance in seven seasons. Cleveland recently had an 11-game losing streak in sportsbooks online results. The Indians have been so bad in sportsbooks online results that they are battling with Kansas City to stay out of last place in the division. Whenever you are mentioned in the same sentence with Kansas City in baseball sportsbooks online, it is bad news.
Wedge is still in the dugout since he is going to finish the season with the sportsbooks online. Much of the Cleveland staff is also going to be gone including pitching coach Carl Willis, hitting coach Derek Shelton, bench coach Jeff Datz, first-base coach Luis Rivera, third-base coach Joel Skinner and bullpen coach Chuck Hernandez. Some may be rehired by the new Cleveland manager for next sportsbooks online season. Some of the contenders for the job are former Cleveland manager Mike Hargrove, Boston pitching coach John Farrell, former Arizona manager Buck Showalter and the team’s Triple A manager Torey Lovullo.
The sports betting edge could be with Lovullo since the last time Cleveland went outside of their organization to hire a manager was in 1990 as offshore sportsbook stats show. Farrell and Hargrove though were in the organization in the past so they are strong candidates as sportsbooks online indicated.
Cleveland was so bad this season in sportsbooks online results that they traded away defending Cy Young winner Cliff Lee and All-Star catcher Victor Martinez. “When you lose changes are made,” catcher Kelly Shoppach said, “Nobody is happy when you lose.”