Matt LaPorta (Photo - AP)Editor's Note: This is the debut piece of another new writer on the IPI, Sean Mahon. He will be writing about various topics surrounding the Cleveland Indians for the site.If you take a look around the AL Central, you’ll notice a household list of tenured first baseman: Paul Konerko and his 13 seasons with the White Sox, Justin Morneau and his nine with the Twins, Miguel Cabrera and his four with the Tigers with four more through 2015, and Eric Hosmer who seems bound to be the Royals’ first baseman for the next decade after an impressive rookie campaign.Then there’s the Indians. Since Jim Thome left first base vacant after the 2002 season, the spot has held casting calls on a seemingly annual basis. Ben Broussard had four solid seasons as the Tribe’s stopgap first baseman from ’03-’06. That’s actually not half bad. But Broussard, who would probably best be considered a very, very poor man’s Sean Casey, was only meant to hold the spot until the big fi...
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