Indians Shoring Up the Pen

Yesterday, the Cleveland Indians inked former Florida Marlins closer Joe Borowski to a one-year deal worth $4 million with a club option on 2008, continuing their quest to improve the bullpen, one of the worst in baseball last season. As I wrote awhile back, the bullpen was one of the areas where improvement was most needed, and if they could simply find pitchers who were even merely awful, improvement would be seen in the win column. Obviously, the Tribe are loaded with offensive talent, and have added two more bats to the lineup since the season ended in OF David Dellucci and 2B Josh Barfield. Along with Borowski, GM Mark Shapiro has brought in RP Roberto Hernandez and RP Aaron Fultz to set up for the closer. As has been rumored in the past few weeks, there is also interest being shown by Cleveland in former Dodgers P Eric Gagne, coming off of a second major surgery, and RPs Keith Foulke and Octavio Dotel, both of whom have had injuries as well. Barring a major trade (or minor one), the Indians are probably about set for Spring Training, roster-wise. As many are predicting, expect a lot from the Tribe in 2007.