"Clubhouse confidential: The chances are good that the Indians will exercise center fielder Grady Sizemore's $9 million club option for 2012, even though he's on the disabled list for the third time this season with knee problems.

The Indians still feel Sizemore, 28, is a good player even when he's not at 100 percent and a great player when healthy.

Sizemore returned to Cleveland on Monday to have an MRI on his right knee. He was anticipating the worst, but the initial report from the Indians is that the bone bruise was not the same kind of injury that caused him to have microfracture surgery on his left knee last season. "