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Aeros rally in ninth top Defenders 2-1

August 6, 2009

AKRON AEROS 2, CONNECTICUT DEFENDERS 1
KEY STATS: Aeros catcher Carlos Santana improved his career and Aeros season-high hitting streak to 14 games with a one-out double down the right field line in the fourth inning…With the win, the Aeros take the series 2 games to 1.
KEY MOMENTS: With just one out in the [...]

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Aeros top Defenders 4-3 in extras; Berger joins team

August 5, 2009

AKRON AEROS 4, CONNECTICUT DEFENDERS 3 – in 10 innings.
KEY STATS: Aeros catcher Carlos Santana increased his career-high hitting streak to 13 games Wednesday with a first-inning base hit into shallow right field. He entered the night’s action batting .429 with four doubles, four home runs, eight walks, 15 RBI and 10 runs scored [...]

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Aeros win streak snapped at seven; Westbrook throws

August 4, 2009

CONNECTICUT DEFENDERS 4, AKRON AEROS 3
KEY STATS: Akron and Connecticut represent the the top two teams in the Eastern League as the Aeros entered Tuesday’s action leading the Southern Division with 68-41 mark and a seven-game lead over second-place Reading. The Northern Division-leading Defenders were 63-45 with a 10-game lead over second-place Trenton…The loss [...]

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Baseball America re-ranks Tribe prospects

August 4, 2009

Jim Callis puts some order to what the trades of last week did for the Indians minor leagues. Here is the link.
Carlos Santana remains his No. 1 prospect in the Tribe’s farm system.

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Roster moves R’ us

July 31, 2009

CLEVELAND: The Indians’ roster will undergo more changes in the wake of the trades of Cliff Lee and Victor Martinez.
Wyatt Toregas will report to Progressive Field today from Columbus and join Kelly Shoppach to form the Tribe’s tandem of catchers. He will take Martinez’s place on the roster.
Right-hander Justin Masterson also is scheduled to arrive [...]

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Aeros sweep second-place SeaWolves

July 30, 2009

AKRON AEROS 13, ERIE SEAWOLVES 4
KEY STATS: With the win, the Aeros completed a four-game sweep of the SeaWolves – an event that marks quite a reversal of their fortunes against the pesky SeaWolves. Akron entered the home series with just three wins in the previous 15 meetings this season.
KEY MOMENTS: Erie starter [...]

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Aeros beat Erie 5-1

July 29, 2009

Key Stats: The Aeros have outscored the SeaWolves 21-5 heading into today’s series finale.
Key Moment: The Aeros sent eight hitters to the plate in the third inning. Singles by Cristo Arnal and Jose Constanza and a two-run double by Carlos Santana highlighted the four-run inning.
Star of the game: The Bullpen. With a blister ending Graham’s [...]

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Aeros beat Erie 7-4

July 28, 2009

Key Stats: Aeros starter Jeanmar Gomez struck out eight in seven innings. He allowed two earned runs, both solo home runs, and four hits. He walked none. Offensively, Mickey Hall drove in two runs and Jerad Head had a triple and a home run, his fifth of the season.
Key Moment: With the game tied at [...]

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Aeros blank SeaWolves 9-0

July 27, 2009

AEROS 9, SEAWOLVES 0
Key Stats: Akron starting pitcher Ryan Edell, a left-hander went seven innings, his longest start of the season, blanking the SeaWolves in the process. He struck out seven and scattered four hits.
Key Moment: Edell ran into his only trouble of the game in the seventh inning when he walked Alex Avila. The [...]

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Aeros lose to Curve again, 7-3

July 26, 2009

ALTOONA CURVE 7, AKRON AEROS 3
KEY STATS: Aeros starting pitcher Bobby Livingston spotted the Curve a five-run first inning before settling in and retiring 15 consecutive batters while holding Altoona to just one more hit over the next five innings…The Aeros offense went 0-for-9 with men on base – including eight with runners in [...]

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Indians receptive to Lee trade talks, Heyman says

July 21, 2009

The Cleveland indians have been steadfast in their commitment to keep starting pitcher Cliff Lee in a tribe uniform this season, but things may have changed over the last few days, according to Sports Illustrated writer Jon Heyman.
The Indians appear to be more seriously considering the possibility of trading star pitcher Cliff Lee in recent [...]

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Gomez fills Rondon’s all-star spot

July 7, 2009

Akron Aeros starting pitcher Jeanmar Gomez is said to have many similarities to former Akron Aeros starting pitcher Hector Rondon.
Who better than to replace him in the Eastern League All-Star game?
With Rondon’s recent promotion to Cleveland’s Triple-A affiliate Columbus, Gomez will fill Rondon’s spot on the all-star roster.
Since joining the Aeros early this season Gomez is  6-2 [...]

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6-9-09 Morning RoundUp

June 9, 2009

It is draft day for the Cleveland Indians. It sounds like a good day for the Tribe, but will it be?
Traditionally, The Indians haven’t been strong on draft day. CC Sabathia, a 1998 draftee, is the last first rounder to be a major contributor at the major league level. 
As Dennis Manoloff writes about the Indians [...]

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Trading away the Tribe

May 18, 2009

Plenty of rumors have already swirled this season as the Indians carry the worst record in the American League and the second worst in all of baseball.
If the Indians continue their downward slide who might be traded away for top of the line (pitching) prospects?
We have already heard the Cliff Lee rumors plenty of times [...]

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Bowie snaps Aeros’ winning streak

May 11, 2009

AKRON AEROS 3, BOWIE BAYSOX 1
KEY STATS: Newly-anointed Aeros starting pitcher Erik Stiller pitched a season-high 3 1/3 innings, allowing just one earned run on two hits…Right-hander Carlton Smith came on in relief and also produced his longest outing of the season with 3 2/3 scoreless innings…Bowie snapped it’s three-game losing streak with the [...]

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A look around the Indians minor leagues

May 6, 2009

With the parent-club Indians calling up players, demoting others and even turning starting pitchers into relievers in an effort to help right the ship, let’s find some positives by checking in on the Tribe’s minor league teams.
Triple-A Columbus
the Clippers are 11-15 and remain in last place in the International League West Division, 2 1/2 games [...]

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A weekly look at the Tribe’s minor leagues

May 1, 2009

There may not be a whole lot to cheer about with the Indians these days, but let’s check out what some of the team’s minor leaguers are up to with the season just about a month old.
TRIPLE  A COLUMBUS
The Clippers are 9-12 and in last place in the International League West Division:
* The Indians called [...]

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Aeros 9, Senators 3

April 30, 2009

KEY STATS: Aeros right-hander Jeanmar Gomez won his Double-A debut, holding the Senators to a run on two hits in five innings, walking one and striking out five. . . . With the sweep, the Aeros wrapped up a 7-1 homestand and increased their franchise-best start to 16-4. . . . The Senators (2-16) lost [...]

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4-30-09 Morning RoundUp

April 30, 2009

The Indians were up five zip in the fifth inning, yet they lost 6-5 in 10.
It was yet another head scratcher loss. This time it was former Indian farmhand Jonathan Van Every who hit the 10th-inning home run to give the Red Sox the lead.
Van Every hit the ball off of his former roomate, Jensen [...]

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Curve 7, Aeros 6 (10 innings)

April 26, 2009

Key stats:  The Curve committed five errors, with three of them coming in the first inning. It allowed the Aeros to jump out to a quick 4-0 lead. The Aeros committed three costly errors as well, including one in the eighth inning that allowed two runs to score. 
Key moment: Aeros starter Frank Hermann just seemed [...]

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