I've been posting signings as they've come in, Civ. And I'm pretty sure we have yet to sign Rivera. Don't remember it any way.

I'm sorry, I just noticed I made a brain fart in my run down from last night. Castro had a double, triple, and homer. I typed single instead of triple. But then went on to say if he had a single he'd had a cycle. Very confusing. Duh.

CLE AA Bradley, Bobby 1B 3 2 2 1 .264 BB (34)
CLE AA Chang, Yu-Cheng SS 3 0 1 0 .216 2B (13), BB (22)
CLE AA Mathias, Mark 2B 4 0 0 0 .219
CLE AA Mejia, Francisco C 5 1 0 1 .343
CLE AAA Diaz, Yandy LF 5 1 1 1 .312
CLE HiA Castro, Willi SS 5 2 3 4 .290 2B (14), 3B (1), HR (6) [vital tradeable depth]
CLE MAJ Zimmer, Bradley CF 3 1 1 0 .291 BB (12)
CLE SS Benson, Will RF 3 0 1 0 .226 2B (2), BB (2)
CLE SS Gonzalez, Oscar LF 4 0 0 0 .324
CLE SS Jones, Nolan 3B 4 1 2 0 .296 2B (2)
CLE HiA Civale, Aaron 5 5 3 1 0 5 2.48 W (4-1)
CLE LoA Hillman, Juan 7 1 0 0 2 8 5.60

"But then went on to say if he had a single he'd had a cycle. Very confusing. Duh."

Since this folder is mostly a dialogue between the two of us, with some visitors, I knew what you meant.

The Tribe plays early today and so does the Rubber Ducks. They have a noon start too. No Mejia in the lineup having catched last night, but Bradley is in there. Papi and co. Esparza pitching. He has been on quite a roll. Only allowed 11 earned runs his last 7 starts.

But seems like all our pitching prospects and suspects, well, most, (ahem, BradyAiken, ahem) have been doing great lately.

I've been quite critical of the Indians organization for some things, such as piss poor drafting. But I gotta say, they kick ass when it comes to developing pitchers.

Matter of fact, I was listening to a podcast a week or two ago on our minor leaguers and they had a guest on, a national minor league baseball writer, and he said the Indians organization is widely respected for their pitching development.

Esparza over last 7 starts ... 5-0 ... 45.2 IP ... 30 H ... 11 ER ... 9 BB ... 37 K.

Indians Prospective‏ @indiansPro 4 minutes ago

Lake County #Captains transactions

RHP Josh Nashed placed on the 7-day DL
RHP Nick Gallagher placed on the 7-day DL

Columbus #Clippers transactions

LHP Chris Narveson assigned to Akron
RHP Nick Pasquale promoted from Akron

Richie Shaffer is named to IL all star team for Clippers.

Triston McKenzie (USA) and Francisco Mejia (World team) has been named to the Futures Game rosters from Indians organization.

Akron up early 4-0 on a Krieger 3 run homer.

There's quite a few players being released this time of year. Anybody find a listing of these guys?

Futures Game representatives

ARI Jon Duplantier
ATL Ronald Acuna, Mike Soroka
BAL Tanner Scott, Chance Sisco
BOS Rafael Devers
CHC Eloy Jimenez
CIN Jimmy Herget, Nick Senzel
CLE Tristan McKenzie, Francisco Mejia
COL Ryan McMahon, Brendan Rodgers
CWS Zack Collins, Michael Kopech, Yoan Moncada
DET Beau Burrows, Jairo Labourt
HOU Yordan Alvarez, Derek Fisher, Kyle Tucker
KC Foster Griffin
LAA Jaime Barria
LAD Yadier Alvarez, Alex Verdugo
MIA Brian Anderson, Tayron Guerrero
MIL Lewis Brinson, Mauricio Dubon, Corey Ray
MIN Nick Gordon
NYM Tomas Nido, Amed Rosario
NYY Domingo Acevedo, Estevan Florial
OAK A.J. Puk
PHI Rhys Hoskins, Scott Kingery
PIT Luis Escobar
SD Josh Naylor
SEA Thyago Vieria
SF Bryan Reynolds
STL Jack Flaherty
TB Brent Honeywell, Lucius Fox
TEX Jonathan Hernandez
TOR Bo Bichette, Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
WSH Victor Robles

Last year's rosters show just why fans should get excited for this game each and every year. Alex Bregman, Dansby Swanson, Andrew Benintendi and Hunter Renfroe all were on the United States roster while Gary Sanchez, Manuel Margot and Raimel Tapia were all on the World squad. All are making big league contributions now.

Akron wins 7-6. David Speer allowed 3 straight singles to load bases in 9th but local guy Perci Garner comes in and ends the threat and the game.

6 more shutout innings for Esparza today. ... 6IP, 3 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 8 K ... This guy is turning heads.

Updated stats ...

Esparza over his last 8 starts ... 6-0 ... 51.2 IP ... 33 Hits ... 11 ER ... 11 BB ... 45 K

Papi 1-3 with walk.
Bradley 0-4 with 2 K.
Krieger 2-3 with a homer and 5 RBI.

Those 2 pitchers on the LC DL were just signed. Apparently they'll debut in Instructional League.

haven't seen list of released players; I could imagine some would be dumped this time to year at the lowest levels to make room for the newly drafted and signed.

Esparza was Baseball America's "sleeper pick" for 2017. They got that one right.

but I've still never seen them to give one word to Pannone.

The reason I asked about released players is I was following a couple of local kids a couple of years ago . One was in the Yankees organization and one was with Arizona. I never saw their release in print but both were released.

Indians Prospective‏ @indiansPro 27 minutes ago
Source: #Indians favorites to sign 5'7 152lbs 16yr old INF Richard Paz out of Venezuela. Paz to begin his career in Dominican Summer League.