Cleveland Sports Forum

Jerry Sands blasts his 2nd homer off a real major league reliever. I'd hope that his spring success [which certainly is not guaranteed to translate to real season success] helps ease the path out the door for Raburn. But perhaps he's only competing with Francona's desire for an 8 man bullpen

2 hits for Bourn [I wish he could walk, but he just doesn't. For the spring 3 walks, 8 strikeouts, AVG 373. 2 2b, 1 hr
2 hits for Brantley he's hitting 351, 1 xb hit, 2 walks. Not worried about him. He had no homers last ST either
2 hits for Moss, including his 4th homer, 3 rbi, walk 297 avg, ops over 1000
2 hits for Kipnis and a walk and his 1st steal.

Bruce Chen stunk but who cares. 4 runs, 2 homers, 8 hits in 4 1/3.
Shaw scoreless for 2/3, Allen for 1, Swarzek for 1.
Austin Adams fighting hard for that last roster spot: 2 runs, 3 hits, 1 walk, 1 inning. ERA 7.27
Jeff Manship with a scoreless inning ERA 0.87

Attendance in ST matches attendance in Cleveland. Can't draw flies.Tribe draws 3,000 for today's game. Giants/Cubs game yesterday drew 15,000

Welcome back Swish!

Swisher's first AB

3 pitches

Swinging strike 1

Swinging strike 2

Swinging strike 3

Who's fooling who on April Fools day?

Nine up....nine down for Kluber.

Well, well, well.

Swisher receives the kiss of Seagull and bloops a single for an RBI.

Raburn gets the kiss of Civ and has 2 hits today.

And Aguillar with a couple hits, which guarantees he doesn't win the 25th roster spot.

Seagull, if you truly had a Kiss of Life then all the Cleveland teams would have had multiple championships and MVP awards by now.

Last make-believe game of the spring. Bauer allows another mammoth homer; hot and cold he finishes with 3 runs in 6 innings and a pile of Ks.

Austin Adams "the 25th man" [actually probably about the 35th best man in camp] once again flops, this time a double and a single to a couple minor leaguers to lose the game in the last of the 9th. He has been one of the most consistant members of the pen this spring, lousy lousy and lousy. If there must be 8 relievers, Manship pitched very well. If he needs someone already on the roster was bad but not as bad. If he wants a player who can contribute, he could have gone for Aguillar, Sands, Martinez

Could this be a matter of delaying service-time clocks for the others? Keeping a garbage-time arm around before committing to one of the others you mentioned?

I don't think so. All of them already have had some major league time and none of them is ever going to be a big star who's going to command a big salary.

I could have something to do with the Indians' very intelligent roster management, like giving the ability to option Adams out whenever they need to add someone else to the roster at the appropriate moment. Lots of inexplicable demotions and promotions by the current management team wound up making sense in the long run. I still assume this is just about Francona wanting an enormous bullpen but not caring much about position player flexibility.

Oh great. We're having to hit against the #1 pitcher for the House of David.

Keuchel Ks the side in the 2nd.

The game is on ESPN tonight.

'sup, JR? Got a new baseball season here.

Santana gets a walk and Gomes lines out to the pitcher. middle of 4 no score. Both pitchers are looking bored.