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Does Marte have a future with Tribe?

September 28, 2009

CLEVELAND: One of the many decisions the Indians must make in the off season concerns Andy Marte.

Do they keep him on the 40-man roster and give him a chance to make the team in spring training or leave him unprotected and allow him to seek employment elsewhere?

Marte was [...]

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Aubrey making most of his chance

September 27, 2009

CLEVELAND: At 27, Michael Aubrey finally has begun a major-league career that was stalled for years by injury.

Aubrey was the Indians first-round draft pick in 2003 but spent most of his first five years as a professional rehabbing injuries: a strained quad in 2003, hamstring strain in 2004, stress fracture in [...]

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Wedge treating LaPorta with care

September 26, 2009

Manager Eric Wedge did not want to take a chance on aggravating Matt LaPorta’s inflamed left hip in wet weather and left him out of the lineup Saturday night.

“”It’s tough to put him in there with this rain,” Wedge said. “”I don’t want to lose him for the rest of [...]

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Wedge owes it all to many

September 23, 2009

CLEVELAND: Managers are made not born, but who makes them?

In just 10 days, Eric Wedge will complete his seventh season as manager of the Indians. Even though he has a contract for 2010, Wedge might not be back. More than likely, we will learn Wedge’s fate one or two [...]

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Smith finally on a run

August 26, 2009

KANSAS CITY, Mo.: It took awhile. That’s the way it works, especially for younger, less experienced relief pitchers who drop their arm down and throw sidearm.
Those pitchers can’t be trusted, according to conventional baseball wisdom. If they throw with their right arm, like Joe Smith of the Indians, left-handers get a longer look at the [...]

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Bullpen better, but Perez, Lewis still shaky

August 12, 2009

CLEVELAND: It took more than half a season, but the Indians’ bullpen finally is becoming an asset.
Manager Eric Wedge credits the relievers’ recent success to the rotation, at least in part.
“We are in that position because of what the starting pitchers have done,” he said Wednesday.
Because the starters have been staying in games for six [...]

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Tribe still has something to play for

August 10, 2009

The Indians have won 12 of their past 18 games and recently have taken two of three from each of the Central Division contenders: Detroit, Chicago and Minnesota.
If the Tribe were to continue to play at a .667 pace the rest of the season, it would finish with a plus .500 record of 82-80. But [...]

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Westbrook enters home stretch

June 9, 2009

CLEVELAND: Nothing against suburban Phoenix, but Jake Westbrook is happy to be gone from Arizona and the Indians’ extended spring training program.
“I was there four months,” he said Monday. “I glad to be out of there. My tan is good enough. Now, I get to see the guys and pitch under the lights.”
Just like the [...]

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Cabrera out two-four weeks

June 3, 2009

MINNEAPOLIS: The Indians’ body count continued to rise Wednesday with the news that Asdrubal Cabrera was placed on the 15-day disabled list. 
Rather than being struck down with a dislocated shoulder, as Cabrera thought, the diagnosis, made in Cleveland, is a sprain.
“An MRI and an exam by Dr. (Mark) Schickendantz confirmed that it’s an AC joint [...]

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Wedge too busy to worry about job

May 11, 2009

CLEVELAND: Once the subject of a manager’s job security is broached publicly, the story tends to take on a life of its own.
After the Indians’ loss to the Tigers Sunday, two players were asked whether manager Eric Wedge should be taking heat for the team’s ugly start. Both players, Victor Martinez and Mark DeRosa, emphatically [...]

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Laffey assigned to save bullpen

May 6, 2009

With few moves to make and lots of holes to fill in the Indians’ bullpen, General Manager Mark Shapiro and manager Eric Wedge are using the creative approach.
Why not ask a starter to become a reliever, at least temporarily, or maybe not. At this point, nobody can say when the bullpen crisis will end, or [...]

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5-3-09 Morning RoundUp

May 3, 2009

Rafael Betancourt step right up. It’s your turn to cough up a lead!
The Indians have been able to score back-to-back wins just once this season and are now fighting to get over that hump.
In Saturday’s 9-7 loss to the Tigers the Indians responded to a five-run deficit early before eventually taking the lead in [...]

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LaPorta, Valbuena get first shot at bigs

May 1, 2009

You want moves? Eric Wedge will give you moves.
After Friday night’s 6-5 win over the Tigers, the Indians’ skipper announced three roster moves involving six players.
Arriving today from Columbus will be the club’s No. 1 prospect, left fielder Matt LaPorta, plus infielders Luis Valbuena and Josh Barfield. 
To make room for them, right-hander Joe Smith will [...]

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4-26-09 Morning RoundUp

April 26, 2009

What positives could be taken from Saturday night’s 7-1 loss to the Minnesota Twins at Progressive Field?
Starting pitching?
Carl Pavano allowed five runs and 11 hits in five innings. He walked one. But as Sheldon Ocker points out, the Twins two, fourth-inning runs were made possible by four consecutive groundballs.
relief pitching?
Rafael Perez is being brought back [...]

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4-23-09 Morning Roundup

April 23, 2009

The starting pitching seems to be turning a corner, but where were the bats Wednesday?
Cleveland Indians starter Cliff Lee pitched eight innings Wednesday night. He allowed two runs, nine hits, struck out five and walked one.
As April gets closer to May though, Lee has already equaled his loss total from a year ago (three). It [...]

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Good news surprises Sipp

April 22, 2009

Tony Sipp figured he was in big trouble Tuesday night. 
Columbus manager Torey Lovullo phoned Sipp at his digs long after the game was over, asking him to drive back to the ballpark.
“I thought I did something wrong,” said Sipp, who was summoned from Triple-A for the first time in his career to help settle the [...]

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Choo shakes off effects of WBC experience

April 5, 2009

Shin-Soo Choo admits he wasn’t quite himself when he returned from the World Baseball Classic, where he played for South Korea, which lost in the finals to Japan.
“It was a different schedule there, a different program and a different time,” he said Sunday. “My body was different. I came back and I was pretty tired. [...]

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Pavano solid in final exhibition win

April 4, 2009

Thankfully for the Indians, spring training games don’t count.
Despite rallying for three runs in the ninth to beat the Astros 4-3 Saturday afternoon at Minute Maid Park, the Tribe completed the exhibition season with a 12-20 record. 
The Tribe got strong pitching from three of four pitchers, including starter Carl Pavano, who yielded one run and [...]

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Smith, Kobayashi shine after Lewis fails

March 31, 2009

Like so many of the Indians’ spring training games, Tuesday’s 12-4 loss to the Mariners wasn’t pretty.
The good news for the Tribe: Masa Kobayashi worked a hitless inning, and Joe Smith pitched effectively, despite giving up one run and two hits in two innings. Smith didn’t issue a walk and struck out three.
As a sidearming [...]

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Wedge will play it by ear

March 29, 2009

Manager Eric Wedge tried Sunday to explain how he would handle the Indians’ logjam at first base and catcher among Victor Martinez, Kelly Shoppach and Ryan Garko.
In essence, Wedge will figure it out as he goes along.
There is no reasonable way to predetermine a rigid plan for using the three players. Martinez probably will [...]

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