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Cleveland Indians option OF Daniel Johnson to minors despite strong camp
Johnson was optioned to Triple-A Columbus on Friday as the Indians moved closer to finalizing their Opening Day roster with a move that was tough on several fronts. With the Indians looking to fill spots in right and center field, the 25-year-old Johnson performed as well as any of the outfielders competing by batting .368 […]
Continue readingCleveland Indians tell OF Billy Hamilton he won’t make roster, look to trade him
Manager Terry Francona said the club told Hamilton on Thursday that he wasn’t part of their plans. The Indians will try to trade Hamilton, who signed a minor league contract last month and has been at big league training camp. “We just felt, out of respect to Billy, because of being the veteran he is […]
Continue readingBen Gamel, Cleveland Indians agree to minor league deal
Cleveland and Gamel agreed to a minor league contract on Thursday, and he was invited to big league spring training camp. The 27-year-old has played 442 major league games for the Yankees, Mariners and Brewers. Gamel’s agreement came a week after the Indians gave former Minnesota slugger Eddie Rosario an $8 million, one-year contract. Rosario […]
Continue readingMLB’s new extra-innings rule is here and — surprise! — it’s glorious
It became clear a couple of years ago that Major League Baseball and its commissioner, Rob Manfred, were working toward an inevitable introduction of weird extra-innings rules, and in this space we were pretty harsh to it. “The runner-on-second-with-nobody-out fix is just about the most boring idea to end games you could think of,” we […]
Continue readingOne stat that will shape 2020 for every American League team
Former manager Bobby Bragan once described baseball statistics like this: “Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable.” Good one. Nonetheless, baseball is a numbers game. As we peel away from the Astros’ cheating scandal and […]
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