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Clobbering Time: Indians Find Strange Success Against Former Cy Young Winners

Kyle Downing — Thu, 16 May 2013 19:00:26 +0000

At the top of the list of highlights for the Tribe this season has been their astounding success against former Cy Young Award-winning pitchers. So far this season, the Indians have had the unfortunate luck of having to face members of this elite class in more than one out of every five games they’ve played. In those seven match ups, they have produced some astounding results, dealing losses to six of those pitchers and slapping them with a colossal 8.10 combined ERA.They’ve tagged them for a whopping 33 earned runs on 52 hits, including 9 home runs, dealing the pitchers a dismal average game score of 37.

If those numbers don’t already make your jaw drop, there’s more. (more…)

Judging Mark Shapiro’s GM Tenure: High-Profile Trades

Ed Carroll — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:57:39 +0000

Let’s get a this out of the way: I am a fan of the work Mark Shapiro did as general manager of the Cleveland Indians, from when he got the job on November 1, 2001 until he was formally promoted to team president on October 3, 2010. I feel he did a good job putting a competitive team on the field given the financial restrictions of running a small-market team. His tenure was not perfect and a decade of poor drafting has hindered the team in many ways, but I think he deserves merit as one of the better GMs in recent baseball memory.

We’re now more than two full years removed from Shapiro’s promotion to team president and GM Chris Antonetti is firmly entrenched as the Tribe’s decision maker. So I thought now would be as soon as anyone could fairly judge Shapiro’s tenure as GM. There are still some loose ends hanging (Carlos Carrasco, for example, and Matt LaPorta), but the body of his work is complete, and I wanted to put my optimism to the test. (more…)

This Week In Indians Baseball: Week 20

Katie Hendershot — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:03:38 +0000

The Indians struggled as they opened a nine-game, ten-day West Coast swing. After taking the first of three from the Los Angeles Angels, they lost the next two of the series. The Oakland Athletics then swept the Tribe in a three-game series. Overall, the Indians were 1-5 in the 20^th week of the season. (more…)