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Guys,

Mejia can play.

The bat will play anywhere. It’s truly legit and has easy all star potential.

He just can’t manage a pitching staff, and quite frankly, there’s not a whole lot that can be done about that.

It’s incredibly difficult to communicate with him and it’s incredibly difficult for him to communicate with others within the organization despite improvements to his english.

He wants to catch but I don’t think it’s gonna happen here. If he bought into the OF experiment, he’d have been in Cleveland full time a month ago.
 
EdMonix11 said:
Guys,

Mejia can play.

The bat will play anywhere. It’s truly legit and has easy all star potential.

He just can’t manage a pitching staff, and quite frankly, there’s not a whole lot that can be done about that.

It’s incredibly difficult to communicate with him and it’s incredibly difficult for him to communicate with others within the organization despite improvements to his english.

He wants to catch but I don’t think it’s gonna happen here. If he bought into the OF experiment, he’d have been in Cleveland full time a month ago.
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Man... I just don't understand. If he's seriously this good, and all-star caliber talent then the Indians have to make it work with him. We need his bat right now. He literally just had at least 3 nice ABs out of 4 vs Yankees with 2 of those ending up with him on base.

We are winning the divison very easily, itll be smart to use these games to experience with him in RF, and catching. Say we play 6 games out of 7 days, I'd give Gomes 2 rest games 1 going to Berto, and the other letting Meija catch. The team could be a little more versatile.

And if Meija really doesn't want to play RF, then we should just trade him because if he can't catch now, then when will he? Gomes is an Allstar, Berto is a backup specialist managing Bauer to his best season of his career, cannot screw with that chemistry because quite frankly I'd rather have good Bauer than good Perez (if that's even possible).

So If I'm Indians, I lay out a plan to Meija, tell him be the best athlete he can be in RF because that's the sacrifice we need him to make. He can also catch, and we can even DH him a game and let Eddie man 1st.
 
Real Deal said:
Man... I just don't understand. If he's seriously this good, and all-star caliber talent then the Indians have to make it work with him. We need his bat right now. He literally just had at least 3 nice ABs out of 4 vs Yankees with 2 of those ending up with him on base.

We are winning the divison very easily, itll be smart to use these games to experience with him in RF, and catching. Say we play 6 games out of 7 days, I'd give Gomes 2 rest games 1 going to Berto, and the other letting Meija catch. The team could be a little more versatile.

And if Meija really doesn't want to play RF, then we should just trade him because if he can't catch now, then when will he? Gomes is an Allstar, Berto is a backup specialist managing Bauer to his best season of his career, cannot screw with that chemistry because quite frankly I'd rather have good Bauer than good Perez (if that's even possible).

So If I'm Indians, I lay out a plan to Meija, tell him be the best athlete he can be in RF because that's the sacrifice we need him to make. He can also catch, and we can even DH him a game and let Eddie man 1st.
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I’m not pro any plan that has Gomes only in the lineup every other game.

RF is where he can play for us right now, but he doesn’t seem to have bought into that quite yet.

If we could trade him for a really good outfielder with multiple years of team control, I’d listen on that, but I’m not moving him for a reliever under any realistic circumstance.
 
I can't imagine why a team is slow playing a prospect when the guy who plays 8 out of 10 days at his primary position is the highest rated pitch framer in the AL, who happens to battery with a decent pitching staff, has always been a plus defender, and who, pathetically, has the 2nd highest OPS among AL catchers with 200+ plate appearances, while the other guy is guiding a young pitcher to a career year.

You don't bring up top guys to play once every week at their primary position and get them 4-6 ABs a week...common sense. Young man has to embrace a position change if he wants to play pretty much every day at the MLB level, which is the only way they will keep him up, not fight the organization over it...
 
BimboColesHair said:
I can't imagine why a team is slow playing a prospect when the guy who plays 8 out of 10 days at his primary position is the highest rated pitch framer in the AL, who happens to battery with a decent pitching staff, has always been a plus defender, and who, pathetically, has the 2nd highest OPS among AL catchers with 200+ plate appearances, while the other guy is guiding a young pitcher to a career year.

You don't bring up top guys to play once every week at their primary position and get them 4-6 ABs a week...common sense. Young man has to embrace a position change if he wants to play pretty much every day at the MLB level, which is the only way they will keep him up, not fight the organization over it...
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He should get a translator to tell the organization he's a catcher and demand a trade.
 
I think I brought this up a while back but why 1B for Mejia? I understand if you want him in the big leagues asap it has to be OF, but we only have one more year of both Alonso and Edwin.
 
Derek said:
Dodgers also have a very good organization. Diaz would be #3 in our’s, and he’s trending upward.
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Whenever it comes to any Cleveland team, the other team is ALWAYS asking or demanding for the #1 prospect. Amazing though when it comes to other teams like the Yankees, Boston, and other noted teams give up crap to get even better. It's like WTF????
 
Also, every writer is also biased against (insert favorite team here)
 
It's just confirmation bias based off headlines.

Red Sox gave up a fuck ton to get Chris Sale and Craig Kimbrel. Pretty sure they gave up a, at the time, MLB top 20 prospect to get Drew Pomeranz too. I believe the Cubs gave up their at the time #1 prospects in their trades for Chapman and Quintana
 
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