An Early Look (and Guess) on What the Indians Do with Their 2019 Free Agents

2. Cody Allen

At the beginning of the season Indians fans were fretting with the fact that both Cody Allen and Andrew Miller were both free agents at the end of 2018, but now there’s a question with the way each performed late in the season if the Indians want either one of them back.

Allen was a disaster in the second half of the season, and by the end of the year for the most part had taken a backseat to the player who is going to be the teams’ closer in 2019, Brad Hand, who came over from the Padres in a masterful trade by the Tribe front office.

Being the stand up player that he’s always been, Allen took a lot of the blame for the issues he had, as he just never was able to turn things around and ended the season with a career high 4.56 ERA.

He did break the Indians all-time saves mark in the 2018 season, but a lot of his success came before his collapse which seemed to happen after a solid April and May.

It will be interesting if the Indians offer him a deal to come back and work out of the pen, or if they want to wipe the awful pen slate clean for 2019.

Early Guess – Allen is still just 29 (will turn 30 when the 2019 season starts) so there’s no doubt that he should have years left on his arm, but after what happened this year, a change of scenery might be needed. It’s tough to think he’ll be back in a Tribe uniform, and instead will take a 1-2 year deal elsewhere to try and get his issues turned back around.

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