Indians send Trevor Bauer to the bullpen

[Otto von Ballpark]

Interesting in light of our decisions with Trevor May:

 

http://www.ohio.com/blogs/cleveland-indians/cleveland-indians-1.282227/indians-moving-trevor-bauer-to-the-bullpen-cody-anderson-no-4-starter-josh-tomlin-no-5-1.672539

 

Of course, Bauer has 64 MLB starts under his belt, has never quite harnessed his control as May appeared to be doing over the first half of 2015, and the Indians have a pretty stacked rotation (although a case could definitely be made for Bauer over Cody Anderson this spring).

[Mike Sixel]

He cannot throw the ball over the plate, where he wants. Feel bad for him, as he has real talent, but cannot harness it like he wants. I hope he finds a way to manage the frustration.....

[Willihammer]

One of the knocks on Bauer has been his endless tinkering with seemingly dozens of different pitches. Perhaps sending him to the pen was a prod to get him to focus on perfecting 2-3 pitches instead of 20.