Wahoo's on First » CC Sabathia http://wahoosonfirst.com A Cleveland Indians Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Fri, 24 May 2013 17:00:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 What if the Indians Had an Infinite Payroll Starting from 2007? http://wahoosonfirst.com/2013/02/20/what-if-the-indians-had-an-infinite-payroll-starting-from-2007/ http://wahoosonfirst.com/2013/02/20/what-if-the-indians-had-an-infinite-payroll-starting-from-2007/#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:30:37 +0000 Merritt Rohlfing http://wahoosonfirst.com/?p=6908 It’s a pastime of any wishful thinking baseball fan: what if I had a few billion dollars and could buy my favorite team? What would happen? Well, that’s a great question. The Dolans are far from poor, but the revenue streams the Indians have coming their way are all too minimal. So let’s have some fun, let’s spend some time re-breaking hearts and opening old wounds, let’s imagine the Indians signed a distribution deal with Fox Sports in, say, 2007 for more than what the Dodgers just did. How would that be different? Where would we be today? (more…)

]]> http://wahoosonfirst.com/2013/02/20/what-if-the-indians-had-an-infinite-payroll-starting-from-2007/feed/ 0 Judging Mark Shapiro’s GM Tenure: High-Profile Trades http://wahoosonfirst.com/2012/10/23/judging-mark-shapiros-gm-tenure-high-profile-trades/ http://wahoosonfirst.com/2012/10/23/judging-mark-shapiros-gm-tenure-high-profile-trades/#comments Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:57:39 +0000 Ed Carroll http://wahoosonfirst.com/?p=5634 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…)

]]> http://wahoosonfirst.com/2012/10/23/judging-mark-shapiros-gm-tenure-high-profile-trades/feed/ 0 An Indians Fan’s Guide to the Playoffs: Wild Card, ALDS, and NLDS http://wahoosonfirst.com/2012/10/05/an-indians-fans-guide-to-the-playoffs-wild-card-alds-and-nlds/ http://wahoosonfirst.com/2012/10/05/an-indians-fans-guide-to-the-playoffs-wild-card-alds-and-nlds/#comments Fri, 05 Oct 2012 10:28:36 +0000 Lewie Pollis http://wahoosonfirst.com/?p=5872 The 2012 MLB playoffs start today, and the Cleveland Indians are one of the 20 teams to have been eliminated after 162 games. But just because the Tribe is out of it doesn’t mean we won’t see some familiar faces on national TV this October nor that we shouldn’t care how the postseason unfolds. (more…)

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