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Reliever prepared to start all over for Tribe Despite success, Lewis knows he can't take his job for granted
By Sheldon Ocker
Beacon Journal sportswriter
Published on Monday, Feb 18, 2008
WINTER HAVEN, FLA.: When does a player know he's arrived? When everyone around him takes for granted that he's a lock to make the team.
That is the position in which Jensen Lewis finds himself, but nobody has told him. Moreover, after his 2007 whirlwind tour of minor- and major-league venues from Akron and Buffalo to Cleveland, New York and Boston, Lewis doesn't want to hear that he already owns one of the Indians' seven bullpen berths.
Lewis came to camp with the mind-set of a hungry newcomer trying to make the club.
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