Four Players the Indians Need to Step Up in the Second Half of the Regular Season

2. Josh Tomlin

The ‘Little Cowboy’ has had a rough first half of 2017, going 5-9 with an ERA of 5.90. He started the season 1-3, and in his 17 starts this season he’s gone five innings or less eight times.

Three times he’s gone less than three innings, putting a major strain on the teams’ pen, which has had to do a lot in the first half of the season.

The team seems to always be patient with Tomlin, and even after a disaster last season in the month of August they allowed him to work through it, and eventually it paid off as he was very good in the postseason.

He’s allowed 17 homers in 93 innings thus far, but on a positive note he’s entering the break on a high note, winning his last start after going 7 innings, allowing two runs on four hits in a win last Thursday over the Padres.

With Danny Salazar’s role already in question and Trevor Bauer very up and down, the team really needs Tomlin to get right and stay right in the second half.

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