CLEVELAND (AP) - Eric Wedge's job is safe for the rest of the season.
Cleveland general manager Mark Shapiro said Sunday that the manager and his coaching staff would remain in their jobs with the last-place Indians.
"As I've said all along, the responsibility for the disappointments of this season don't rest on one person," Shapiro said. "The responsibility is spread equally throughout the players, the front office, Eric and his staff.
"I thought it was important for the second half to remove a potential distraction that exists from that speculation."
The Indians, expected to contend in the AL Central Division, are 33-49, the worst record in the league.
Wedge, in his seventh season as Indians manager, is signed through 2010. The Indians are 529-525 under Wedge. They won the Central in 2007 and came within a game of reaching the World Series and Wedge won AL Manager of the Year. |