Lonnie Chisenhall in right field is no longer an experiment

Yesterday brought us some bad things, but also some very good things. For one, athletic males between the age of 20-40 started playing professional baseball games again. One of those men, the criminally underappreciated Carlos Santana, crushed a home run in his first 2016 AB. You can read Bastian's recap of said game here.

Indians News

• Lonnie Chisenhall threw out 2 runners yesterday. It's his first spring training as a right fielder, though I know a few of us wished they'd have tried this last spring. Lonnie offered to play a number of positions because he wanted to remain in the lineup.

• Don't get too excited about those Carlos Santana leading off rumblings... Terry Francona is unlikely to move him up to #1 in the order. This is fine with me. As nice as his OBP would be there, there's nothing wrong with how Jason Kipnis played as a leadoff hitter in 2015. Statistically, the front office's study doesn't seem to have been overly excited about the idea.

• Bruce Chen works in the Indians front office now—and it seems to be working out nicely.

Around MLB

• The Kansas City Royals signed their catcher Sal Perez to a 5-year extension. At his 2014 pace, he'd play 750 games over those 5 years. That's as nice as I can be, considering this is Royals news.

• MLB suspended Aroldis Chapman for 30 games. If it had been much longer, the Yankees would have gotten an extra year of control.