Guardians manager Terry Francona planning multiple operations

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CLEVELAND (AP)-- Cleveland Guardians supervisor Terry Francona has actually already scheduled shoulder replacement surgical treatment and plans on having a pair of hernia operations at the end of this season.

The 64-year-old understands his healing period will be prolonged, and spending another year in the dugout is not favorable to making it a smooth process.

Francona, however, isn't rather prepared to reveal his retirement after 11 seasons with the franchise.

" I need to go get healthy for my life, and this lifestyle is just too difficult," Francona stated Wednesday. "I likewise know how I feel about doing the job a particular way, and I do not believe I can always do that any longer. And that bothers me.

" I don't wish to fib to people (about my future), however I likewise don't want the last 6 weeks to be about me. The focus needs to be on the gamers.".

One Tuesday, Francona inadvertently made himself the focal point of the Guardians' last 36 games by hinting that he would step down as supervisor. It made his regular pregame accessibility anything however.

The timing of his introspective remarks wondered, given that Cleveland is on the periphery of the AL Central race, however didn't catch group president Chris Antonetti or basic manager Mike Chernoff by surprise.

" Tito, Mike and I talk all the time," Antonetti said. "There was absolutely nothing unexpected to me or us about what he said yesterday. We desire Tito to manage here for as long as he's able to.

" But the most essential thing - - and the thing - I and we care about the most - is Tito's life after this and beyond baseball. We want to make sure he's well placed to take pleasure in every moment with his kids and his grandkids and everybody for a long period of time.".

Antonetti's longstanding, profound regard for Francona triggered him to make himself available to the media at Progressive Field.

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Both of their sessions were melancholy, in plain contrast to the upbeat state of mind in the Dodgers' clubhouse down the hall.

Completion of an age in Cleveland appears near. The Guardians have actually made six playoff looks and reached the 2016 World Series under Francona, whose 904 victories are a franchise record.

In 23 total years as a supervisor with Cleveland, Philadelphia and Boston, Francona is 1,934-1,652. He ranks 13th all-time in success.

"I believe that's probably where I'm at now. I'm in a pretty comfy location.