My dominance is striking. I consider baseball to be my favorite sport. I love the Cleveland Indians and then everything else. Baseball to me is number one and the sport I know the most about.
It has been this way for several years. I used to be a football fan. I still am a football fan, but not as much as I used to be and I don't have nowhere near the knowledge of the game that I used to. Of the little time I have to devote to following sports, most of it goes to baseball, even in the offseason.
The past few years, I haven't so much increased my baseball coverage, but I have decreased how much I pay attention to football. And the past two seasons I have been on fire in fantasy football. Seriously, it's incredible. Of the three leagues I am in these past two years, I have been dominating. The league I've been in for almost 10 years has been my ultimate playground as I made it to the title game and had Matt Forte not been injured last season, I would have won it all, my team was unstoppable.
This year in the same league, I'm fresh off the highest score of the season (141, two points higher than my high last year) and off to a 6-1 start, my team looking ever dominant once again. I'm in the division lead with a 5-2 record in another league.
This is far better than what I've been doing in the fantasy baseball world. I didn't fair well in the very deep Cleveland Fan experts league and in the good old Tribe Daily Fantasy Invitational, I was middle of the pack. I did come in second and make the playoffs in another league, but bragging rights over friends is not the same over bragging rights over some knowledgeable people.
What does any of this have to do with the Indians or their offseason?
Absolutely nothing other than it has to do with my offseason and is a way for me to have some sort of intro. I put very little research into my fantasy football teams these past two days. I put a lot into my baseball leagues. So apparently for me in regards to fantasy sports, it seems to be that less is better.
That better not be the case in regards to the Indians homework this offseason. Terry Francona has gone to work already and he met with the media yesterday to discuss the work he has done so far. Most of it is staffing business, which continues to dominate the early months of this offseason.
I'm not sure many people can believe it. I know if you would have told me back in July that the Detroit Tigers would be going to the World Series, I wouldn't have believed you.
As if we haven’t been kicked in the balls, or the female equivalent, enough as a city, now, the Detroit Tigers will represent the American League in the World Series. While the sports gods are at it, why not send the Pittsburgh Steelers to another Super Bowl? Maybe 
With their third round pick in the 2010 MLB draft, the Indians selected shortstop Tony Wolters out of Rancho Buena Vista High School in California. Wolters signed late in the process, and reported to Arizona where he managed to get just 5 games in during the Rookie League that year. Expected to begin 2011 in Lake County, Wolters broke a bone in his hand during spring training and ended up missing the beginning of the year, so the Indians sent the 19-year old to short-season Mahoning Valley. Wolters hit .292/.385/.363 with a HR, 20 RBI, 50 runs scored and 19 stolen bases in 69 games for the Scrappers and seemed primed for a breakout in 2012. Based on his strong 2011 performance as well as the presence of 2011 first round draft pick Francisco Lindor in Lake County, the Indians decided to aggressively push Wolters straight to the high-A Carolina Mudcats for opening day 2012.