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CLEVELAND — Cleveland Indians starting pitchers lead the American League in wins with a 44-23 record Adam Gotsis Jersey , and they’re second with an ERA of 3.39.

Cleveland’s remarkable starting pitching depth will be on display Sunday afternoon at Progressive Field in the finale of a three-game series with the Oakland Athletics. The teams split the first two games, with Oakland winning 6-3 on Saturday to snap Cleveland’s five-game winning streak.

Rookie Shane Bieber will start Sunday for the Indians. In a combined 17 starts for Cleveland and Triple-A Columbus, Bieber is 10-1 with a 1.77 ERA — and he’s the No. 5 starter in the Indians’ rotation.

The rotation is led by two-time Cy Young Award winner Corey Kluber and Trevor Bauer, who ranks third in the AL in strikeouts and innings pitched and is fifth in ERA.

The No. 3 starter is Carlos Carrasco, a 17-game winner last year when he finished fourth in the Cy Young Award voting. The No. 4 starter is Mike Clevinger, who in 38 starts since the beginning of the 2017 season is 18-7 with a 3.07 ERA.

“Good baseball starts with good starting pitching,” Indians manager Terry Francona said. “Having good starting pitching always enhances your chances to win, and we’ve got five very good starting pitchers.”

Bieber is the newest addition to that rotation, having replaced Josh Tomlin in the No. 5 spot. Like Tomlin, Bieber’s calling card is impeccable control. In his 17 starts between Cleveland and Columbus, Bieber has pitched 107 innings and has 101 strikeouts and 11 walks.

In his five starts with the Indians Alfred Blue Jersey , Bieber is 4-0 with a 2.97 ERA. His last start was the worst of the five, but he still won the game. On July 3, he was a 6-4 winner over Kansas City, pitching six innings and giving up four runs and nine hits with two strikeouts and one walk.

Sunday will be Bieber’s first career start against Oakland.

The A’s on Sunday will activate left-hander Brett Anderson (0-2, 7.63 ERA) off the disabled list and he will make his first start since May 18. Anderson was removed from that start after one inning because of a sore shoulder and placed on the disabled list the next day. In four starts before the injury, he was 0-2 with a 7.63 ERA.

Anderson will make his first appearance against the Indians since Aug. 27, 2012, when he pitched seven scoreless innings and gave up two hits in a 3-0 win. Only two players in Cleveland’s lineup that day are still with the Indians: Michael Brantley and Jason Kipnis.

In four career starts against Cleveland, Anderson is 2-0 with a 0.96 ERA.

The A’s on Saturday made a roster move, putting outfielder Matt Joyce on the 10-day disabled list with a lumbar strain, the second time this season that Joyce has spent time on the DL with the same back condition.

To replace Joyce on the roster Aqib Talib Jersey , the A’s recalled outfielder Nick Martini from Triple-A. In 73 games with Nashville, Martini was hitting .308 with six home runs and 40 RBIs. This is his third stint with the A’s this year. In the first two, he was 1-for-10 with one RBI in five games.

Bengals owner Mike Brown says President Donald Trump's numerous tweets attacking NFL players for kneeling during the national anthem have prolonged the issue, which he sees as one of the league's biggest distractions.

Brown noted at the team's annual preseason luncheon Tuesday that the NFL and the players' union are trying to develop an anthem policy that will hopefully please not only owners and players, but fans and the president, too. He said the president's tweets have worked against finding a resolution to the issue.

"I think that worked against us," Brown said. "I think it stirred the pot, it got people looking at it unfavorably, and he has worked that issue for, I suppose, political reasons. It is what it is. It's beyond my pay grade."

Trump has attacked the NFL and players who protested social injustice by kneeling during the "Star Spangled Banner." The league adopted a policy in May that would fine clubs if their players protest on the field Taven Bryan Jersey , but gave them the option to stay in the locker room during the anthem.

The issue flared again last week when the Miami Dolphins developed a policy that would leave players subject to suspensions, prompting the NFL to try to find a solution with the players' union. Trump tweeted again that players should be suspended for kneeling, and he challenged Commissioner Roger Goodell to make a stand.

Brown said he's seen Trump only once in person. They were in the same courtroom in the 1980s when Trump 鈥?then owner of the USFL's New Jersey Generals 鈥?sued the NFL.

"Unlike some of the (NFL) owners you read about in the newspaper, I have never met Donald Trump," Brown said.

Brown said he considered implementing an anthem policy for the Bengals before the league and the union decided to try for a joint resolution last week.

"Yes, I have thoughts on it," Brown said. "Yes, we had ways of handling it. I'm not so sure that wasn't pretty good, at least compared to others. But that's as much as I'm going to say about this, and let's get on to something else."

Brown's team also is involved in a grievance filed on behalf of free agent safety Eric Reid, who met with the Bengals but wasn't offered a contract. Brown reportedly asked Reid during their visit whether he would continue to kneel during the anthem.

The grievance claims that Reid wasn't signed by any team because of his anthem protests. Brown said he was scheduled to meet with the team's lawyers on Wednesday to discuss the case. He was surprised it quickly became an issue.

"It was a quick-forming thunderhead Jack Mewhort Jersey ," Brown said. "I didn't expect it."

Brown is disappointed that the debate over anthem protests has lingered into another season.

"It should never have developed into the issue it has," he said. "Yes, it bothers me that we sit here today talking about the anthem issue."

The Bengals open camp this week coming off a second straight losing season. They haven't won a playoff game since the 1990 season, the sixth-longest streak of postseason futility in NFL history. Brown chose to bring back coach Marvin Lewis for a 16th season even though he has an NFL-record 0-7 in the playoffs.

Brown said he's concerned not only about his team's challenges but also the challenges that the NFL faces with the focus on concussions and pregame protests.

"We have distractions," Brown said. "We have to get beyond them. We have to get beyond the anthem issue. We have to get beyond the concussion issue. There are other things. We're about football. That's what fans want. And this other stuff turns off everybody. We have to get away from it somehow, and it's a challenge for us to do that."

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