- Why Fausto's walks weren't as bad as you think
- Why Luis Valbuena's error doesn't invalidate his game
- Why Chris Perez' gopher ball doesn't invalidate his game
- Why Matt LaPorta's two singles don't validate his game
- A cheap shot at Mike Redmond's advanced age
- Dept. of Not Surprise
- Why two bad plays don't invalidate the five-out save
Thursday, May 6, 2010
The B-List Lite: 5/5
The Tribe blows a 2-run lead in the 9th on an error and a bomb, and today's game recap features:
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
The B-List Lite: 5/4
Extreme Blunderbuss Action does in the Tribe, and today's game recap features:
- Sage advice for Jake Westbrook he already knows
- Sage advice for Jensen Lewis he might not already know
- Grousing about the bullpen in general
- Except Chip Ambriz
- Credit Where Credit is Due
- Dept. of Not Surprise
- Two-out RBI sighting!
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
The B-List Lite: 5/3
Brett Cecil retires the first 19 in a row as the Tribe loses 5-1, and today's game recap features:
- Mitch Talbot and a lesson from archaeology
- Tony Sipp's quiet emergence
- Jhonny Peralta's golden eye
- Manny Acta's continuing Manny Acta'ing
- A snide comment about John Buck's neck
- Irrational disdain for Mark Grudzielanek continued
- Very little else
Monday, May 3, 2010
Poaching
The Cleveland Indians are at a point in their developmental history where we have to resign ourselves to the truth that there are four ways in which we can hope to have talent:
1) Draft (or otherwise sign, as in Latin America) & develop
2) Trade for prospects & develop
3) Trade for or sign second-tier-salaried major-leaguer
4) Sign an NRI and get lucky
We've had some recent success with (1): Lonnie Chisenhall, Jason Kipnis, and Cord Phelps are performing well enough in the minors, and recent successes like Jhonny Peralta, Fausto Carmona, and the recently-departed Victor Martinez show we have had success in non-draft-elligible players in the past. (Tony Sipp is a draft product who is actually useful in the majors.) Most people accept that (2) is actually one of Mark Shapiro's strongest suits, yielding (for example) Grady Sizemore, Shin-Soo Choo, and Luis Valbuena. It's also resulted in some busts (Andy Marte) and guys of questionable value (Tofu Lou) and the jury's out on a bunch of last year's haul (LaPorta, Hagadone, Knapp, Carrasco, Barnes), but it's been one of the things Shapiro has done well at times.
The B-List Lite: 4/30 - 5/2
A three-game set with the Twins ends as most Indians three-game sets do, and today's game recaps feature:
- A lack of concern for Fausto's bad outing
- An expression of concern for Grady's bad start
- A managerial head-scratcher
- An acknowledgement of Justin Morneau's demigoddery
- Jhonny Peralta's hot streak
- Tofu Lou's hot streak
- Raffy Perez as Fredo Corleone
- Welcome to the club, Man Named "Chip!"
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