More Youth Should Follow Santana

  If nothing else, Sunday’s crowd of over 32,000 people who showed up to watch Washington’s Steven Strasburg pitch showed that Cleveland baseball fans will pay to watch something worth their time.  The Dolan family should take note.   Another reason for some resurgent interest in the Tribe is the call up of catcher Carlos Santana.  Finally!  The switch-hitting back stop belted his first career home run on Saturday, and showed he earned Manny Acta’s confidence by being inserted in the third spot in the batting order, usually reserved for the team’s best hitters.    By the way, the manner in which Santana caught the games, including those by veteran hurler Jake Westbrook, and the tough to handle stuff of Fausto Carmona, showed that the front office’s concerns about his defense were baloney, and the real reason Santana wasn’t here had everything to do with his accumulating service time.   This should be just the first of several moves made with prospects over the next few months.  Ma...