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Well, it’s the final trade deadline of the season (waiver wire version), and once again the Indians are showing some signs of life now that the pressure is off. The Indians come into an off day today on the heels of a split or a four-game series with the Baltimore Orioles, having won both of [...]

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So, here we are after the trading deadline, and the Indians are not the team they were when they started the season.  How much has the roster turned over?  The following table compares the roster on opening day with the roster now: Position Opening Day 8/5/2009 Starting Pitchers Cliff Lee Jeremy Sowers Fausto Carmona Fausto [...]

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Apparently, the Indians’ management picked the perfect time to slip Andy Marte through waivers and he cleared and he has been outrighted to Columbus. According to reports, it is likely that Wes Hodges will get the majority of time at third base, while Marte will spend time at third base, first base and DH.  This [...]

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The Cleveland Indians today designated Andy Marte for assignment to pick up right-handed pitcher Juan Salas in a trade with the Tampa Bay Rays. As long-time readers of this blog will know (are there any long-time readers of this blog?), Andy Marte has been a cause celebre here, primarily because of the Indians puzzling treatment [...]

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Saturday afternoon – My wife is a graduate of Adrian College, in Adrian, Michigan and they were in town to play football at Capital University.  As an Otterbein graduate, I don’t need much coercion to go somewhere and root against Capital, so we went to the game and watched Adrian look unorganized and uncreative on [...]

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One of the great clichés in all of sports is that sometimes the best trades are the ones you don’t make.  Cliff Lee, whom many Tribe fans would have traded in the off-season for a Charlie Spikes baseball card, a bag of balls and a couple good fungo bats, won his twentieth game last night  [...]

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The Indians extended their win streak to 10 last night, extending their pwnership of Justin Verlander in a 9-7 victory.  Kelly Shoppach and Shin Soo Choo each hit a two-run homer and Fausto Carmona pitched just well enough to win.  The Indians tacked on two bonus runs in the 9th, which proved to be needed [...]

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Andy Marte is free!!  ESPN is reporting that Casey Blake has been traded to the Dodgers for two prospects: Carlos Santana is a 22-year-old catcher who has been beating the high A California League like a rented mule, with a line of .323 / .431 / /563 with 14 home runs and a staggering 88 runs [...]

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Well, at least they are here in EDT-land.  The Indians played their last 10 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time start of the season.  (Unless they would make the playoffs as a wild-card and get matched up against the Angels of Somewhere Vaguely Between Los Angeles and San Diego and Near Disney.   I kid.  Of course they’ve played [...]

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Last night, the Indians Lost to Barry Zito, who was charged with 1 run (but really, he left a guy on base who was let in by a reliever, so, really, despite what the box score says, we didn’t score on Barry Zito) Were passed by the KC Royals in the standings, and are now [...]

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