Your 2018 Cleveland Indians

[Steve_424]

Tyler Naquin is quietly putting together a nice campaign. .292/.333/.375 in 18 games.

 

[Kevalier]

Tyler Naquin is quietly putting together a nice campaign. .292/.333/.375 in 18 games.

I’ll be curious to see how they make room for Melky Cabrera when he’s ready to come up to Cleveland. They could always send Naquin back down to Columbus, but he’s been hitting quite well over the past few weeks as you mentioned. They may end up letting Rajai go, which would be difficult for them but may be warranted considering his abysmal hitting numbers.

 

[Urban]

I see Cabrera as injury insurance

 

[Kevalier]

I see Cabrera as injury insurance

They’ve already made it clear that the plan is to have him in Columbus for a week or so before calling him up.

 

[Urban]

Missed that, I'd guess Naquin is the odd man out then unless they're comfortable with Zimmer starting vs. LHP.

 

[Urban]

It's very early and the sample size is small, but McAllister has had a very rough start. He gets a hard time from this section and the fans, but he's been pretty solid the past 3 years.

Past 3 years he's had a K/9 over 9 and has struck out 23-28% of batters faced. This year his K/9 only a little over 3 and he's only striking out 7% of batters faced

Again, it is still super early but those numbers are pretty awful from a guy whose workload was expected to increase with Shaw leaving.

 

[macbdog]

Fire Carl Willis

 

[Otsego Mar]

Fire Carl Willis

Why?

 

[thestatman]

Naquin will get screwed over once again. In addition to being the second best hitting outfielder by a mile, he's played an excellent right field, his natural position. He's got a cannon for an arm too.

 

[Stark]

Jesus, this Jeff Beliveau dude we called up to replace Miller suuuuuucks.

Like, worse than McAllister and Belisle combined. If we wanted a lefty, I would've rather given Morimando another shot.

This looks like a garbage take thus far.

 

[Huber.]

Now that Beliveau has taken the lefty crown from Miller, I think a three way trade for Machado is in order. Sending Miller to the team that would send prospects to Baltimore

 

[macbdog]

Why?

The bullpen has seriously regressed under him. The only loss was Shaw, yet overall the bullpen is costing this team games... Which it hasn't done since the Manny Acta era.

 

[bushwick_bill]

The bullpen has seriously regressed under him. The only loss was Shaw, yet overall the bullpen is costing this team games... Which it hasn't done since the Manny Acta era.

It is May 1st, Miller is hurt and we are jumping to conclusions the bullpen has already seriously regressed under him. LOL LOL LOL

 

[AZ_]

Bauer getting worked by the Astros on social media.



Tyler...

 

[Out of the Rafters at the Q]

The observation made by that random Blaze guy on twitter is an interesting one. If his initial observation is true (multiple pitchers' spin rates significantly increased when they joined Houston), I can see why Trevor would be interested--that guy lives and breathes this shit.

The inference that "Blaze" made about cheating is garbage though.