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The glacial wait for Travis Hafner

August 20, 2009

Travis Hafner is due to make $11.5 million for the Indians in 2010.
I may be off base here (no pun intended), but $11.5 mil for a guy hitting .270 with 11 home runs is just a tad much.
Manager Eric Wedge said this week that Hafner is compensating after surgery on his shoulder, and he won’t [...]

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More Indians highlights

August 17, 2009

Joe Posnanski ranks the contracts given to Travis Hafner and Kerry Wood as the ninth and eighth worst in baseball.

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All hail Opening Day II: Wedge on his lineup

April 6, 2009

Despite his spring training struggles, Travis Hafner will hit fourth in today's opening day lineup. Manager Eric Wedge is very comfortable with that idea (obviously). As spring wound down, Wedge talked with the Indians beat writers about his thought process in picking a lineup — and some of the questions dealt with suggestions by people [...]

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Hrrmph

March 31, 2009

Figures.
I spend Monday writing about the Indians and spending a good chunk of time pointing out that Travis Hafner had not hit a home run in the spring. What does he do? Hit a home run Monday night, after I'd sent the story. This is the Murphy's Law of sports writing – and it goes [...]

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Dare we hope for Hafner …

March 17, 2009

Travis Hafner's spring continues. ESPN's epic baseball dude Jerry Crasnick writes: "Encouragement comes in bits and pieces. Hafner hit two bolts in a recent spring training game against the Angels, including a line drive that nicked Jered Weaver's ear on its way into center field." Let's be honest. None of us will know about Hafner [...]

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