Nine Cleveland Indians Would Qualify for Free Agent Compensation Picks
It’s way too early for the Cleveland Indians to be thinking about free agency—only four Tribe players are not under team control for the 2012 season, and there will (hopefully) be a pennant run at...
View ArticleCleveland Indians Shut Out Again: Why is Orlando Cabrera Batting Second?
It had to happen eventually. The Cleveland Indians’ 2-0 loss Sunday afternoon—the final game in the Texas Rangers’ four-game sweep—marked the first time this season that the Tribe had dropped four...
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Is Cleveland Indians’ Lineup in Trouble?
The wheels are starting to come off the wagon for the Cleveland Indians. The Tribe had lost five games in a row before last night’s victory over the Twins. Scoring wasn’t the Indians’ biggest problem...
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What Should Cleveland Indians’ Lineup Look Like?
The Cleveland Indians lost again last night, and it wasn’t Justin Masterson’s fault. The Indians have scored just three runs in their last two games and nine in their last six, spoiling more than one...
View ArticleCord Phelps Will Have Huge Impact on Cleveland Indians
Cord Phelps didn’t have a great MLB debut. In the first big-league game of his career Wednesday afternoon, he went 0-for-4 with a strikeout as the Cleveland Indians lost, 3-2, in 10 innings. But, of...
View ArticleWhich Cleveland Indians Deserve Your All-Star Votes?
Less than two weeks remain before the 2011 MLB All-Star voting closes, and Cleveland fans across the country are sure to be punching their ballots for Tribe players to get as many Indians on the AL...
View ArticleCord Phelps Hits Walk-Off Home Run: Why is Orlando Cabrera Still Indians’...
When the Cleveland Indians called second baseman Cord Phelps up from the minors two weeks ago, the team looked a lot better—not because Phelps was a favorite for Rookie of the Year, but because he...
View ArticleYankees, Red Sox Fans Hurting Themselves with All-Star Votes
Everyone knows Major League Baseball’s annual All-Star vote is a popularity contest. People don’t vote for the most deserving names on the ballot—they punch in for their favorite players or the stars...
View Article2011 MLB All-Star Vote: How to Stack the Deck for an NL Victory
Yesterday, I offered fans of American League teams a self-serving, unsportsmanlike approach to the MLB All-Star vote: in order to help ensure that their favorite clubs receive home-field advantage, AL...
View ArticleIndians Promote Top Prospect: How Good Will Jason Kipnis Be?
Big news out of Cleveland on Thursday as Indians promoted their third infield prospect of the season: second baseman Jason Kipnis. Kipnis, 24, isn’t quite as high-profile a prospect as Lonnie...
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