Indians Prospective‏ @indiansPro 14 minutes ago

Source: #Indians favorites to sign 5'8 160lbs 16yr old (C) Victor Planchart out of Venezuela. A July 2nd sign he will begin career in DSL.

Source: #Indians favorites to sign 6'1 170lbs 16yr old RHP Victor Soteldo out of Venezuela. Soteldo a July 2nd sign to begin career in DSL
DSL #Indians 5 Rangers 4
DeJesus 2-3 2R RBI BB
Palacio 3-4 R
De La Cruz 3.1(IP) 3H 2R 1ER 0BB 2SO

I get a kick out of some of the pictures of some of these kids we sign. So little and young. But you never know when the next Lindor or Colon will be coming.

By the way, Civ, my wife and I will be leaving tomorrow for a long holiday weekend away. Going to a cabin at a remote lake in mountains out here.

I won't have any cell phone or internet access. Nor will I have a television or phone. Going to do some kayaking and fishing. Hiking. Horseback riding. Just a nice quiet holiday getting in touch with nature and not having to listen to the neighbors bottle rockets... My shih tzus will appreciate that. They hate this time of year. Scares them to death. They'd rather bark at moose and bear. They aren't afraid of them. Dumb dogs.

So hopefully you can carry the mail the next several days. I would sure look forward to reading the updates when I eventually get a chance.

No internet, no phone, no TV.........NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Hope you have a lot of weed.

No. Haven't touched that since I was a young man. Puts me to sleep.

I do have a bottle of Belvedere vodka (breakfast), a bottle of Fortaleza tequila (lunch), and a bottle of Eagle Rare bourbon (dinner).

Clippers lose to Charlotte 4-1 to split the 4 game series 2-2. Too bad, I wanted to rub it in to our ole buddy UD. ... Defense didn't help Pasquale. 3.2 IP, 4 H, 3 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 3 K. ... Naquin went 1-4, a solo homer. Bring him up! ... My boy Yandy not in lineup again. Has had quad problems. He needs to stretch more and lift less. He's not a nose tackle. ... Grube starts tomorrow.

I ran down Akron earlier. Peoples starts tomorrow.

Salem beat Lynchburg 6-5 in 14 innings. They still have a lame nickname. Red Sox. Very creative. ... Triston Mc-K was good as usual. 5.1 IP, 5 H, 2 ER, 2 BB, 5 K. ... Lineras pitched 2 shutout innings. He has a 1.02 ERA now. ... Marabell was 0-7 with 5 K's. Are you shitting me? That is an extra special kind of shitty. I'm officially writing him off. ... Castro 1-6 with a double. ... TBD to start tomorrow.

Great Lakes beat Lake County 10-4 Good Buddy. Breaker breaker. Got your ears on? ... Chu 0-3. ... Gavin Collins, continues opening eyes, going 2-3. ... Ice went 1-4. I'm done following him too. Got to start thinning my work load. ... Tully starts tomorrow ... Go Buckeyes!

Scrappers beat Black Bears 6-3. ... Zach Plesac was pretty damn dominating. He is one to keep an eye on. 3 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 6 K. Funny, Aiken comes back from TJ surgery and nowhere near his old self. Plesac comes back and nobody can touch him. You just never know. ... Berardi 2-5 with double. ... Oscar G 3-4 with 2 RBI. He has a hit in all 7 games. ... Nolan Jones 1-4 with a homer. I told you that double was a start, Civ! ... Simeon Lucas, who by the way played 1st base, has he been moved off catcher or doing both? Anyway, Lucas went 2-3 with a double and a homer. Keep hitting like that and they'll find a spot for you. ... Perez starts tomorrow.

DSL Indians 5 DSL Rangers 4 ... J. Lopez 2-4. Kid wakes up hitting. ... Gonzalez 1-4.

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AZL White Sox 6 #Indians 2

Oviedo 5(P) 5H 4R 4ER 3BB 5SO
Dominguez 1-4 R HR 2RBI
Gantt 1-4 R

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DSL Pirates 8 #Indians/Brewers 4

Varela 5(IP) 6H 3R 1ER 0BB 3SO
Kelkboom 2-5 2B 2RBI
Maestre 1-4 2R 2SB

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Indians Prospective‏ @indiansPro 1 hour ago
Source: #Indians favorites to sign 5'11 170lbs 16yr old INF Cesar Idrogo out of Venezuela. A July 2nd sign he will begin career in DSL.

I'll take charge for as long as required, Hillbilly, you've relieved me of much of the Minors burden this year. I'll be turning it back to you for half of July when I'll be out of the country.

Meanwhile, glad to see Nolan Jones starting to hit. He's a big 6-4 kid playing 3rd base and had a better rating than Benson when we drafted both. No reason he can't become a top prospect.

Something must be bothering Sicnarf, not on the DL but not in the lineup the past few days either.

Simeon Lucas is another C-1b-dh with power. Not the most promising of prospect classes so it's entirely up to his bat. Same as namesake Jeremy Lucas, playing a little bit with Columbus, or Loopstok or Joe's old favorite Matt McBride. We'll see.

Here's the Baseball America take on Thursday games; lines for preseason Top 30 in action:

CLE AA Bradley, Bobby 1B 4 0 0 0 .259
CLE AA Chang, Yu-Cheng SS 2 0 0 0 .215 2 BB (24) [glad to see him drawing some walks, needs a few singles too]
CLE AA Krieger, Tyler 2B 3 1 2 5 .235 HR (5) [good night, but not a good summer]
CLE AAA Rodriguez, Nellie 1B 3 0 0 0 .138 BB (30)
CLE HiA Castro, Willi SS 6 1 1 0 .287 2B (15)
CLE LoA Ice, Logan C 4 0 1 1 .209
CLE MAJ Zimmer, Bradley CF 4 1 1 0 .289
CLE R Fermin, Jose SS 3 0 1 0 .071 BB (1) [first North American hit]
CLE SS Benson, Will RF 4 0 0 0 .200
CLE SS Gonzalez, Oscar LF 4 0 3 2 .368
CLE SS Jones, Nolan 3B 4 1 1 1 .290 HR (1)
CLE HiA McKenzie, Triston 5.1 5 2 2 2 5 3.16 [90 pitches in 5 1/3; not his most efficient evening]

Interesting stats line posted by BA for Oscar Gonzalez at:

http://www.baseballamerica.com/statisti ... r-gonzalez

they seem to have a preview of his entire season, it shows his 2017 line with Mahoning Valley [which has only played 10 games this summer] as follows:

36 games
152 AB 16 runs 56 hits an amazing 40 RBI 4 doubles, 8 homers only 4 walks 28 K [which would be much better than 57 in 2016]
368/375/553

[in reality, divide all the above by 4 and you get his actual 9-game stats. So he really is striking out less and singling more. Since he's a 19 year old in a mostly college level league numbers anything remotely like this are quite impressive]

Whatever is bothering Loopstok must not be too bad. He came into last nights game late as a pinch hitter and stayed in when it went into extra innings. He was 1-2. I didn't mention it cause it was a limited role.

and I didn't look at the final box score.

Yes, Oscar has been impressive early on. Hard to get excited about guys in lower levels but I think he may end up one to watch in the future.

We have another guy in lower levels, I think in DSL if I remember correctly, named Gonzalez. Michael. So to avoid confusion I will refer to Oscar by his first name in my rundowns.

Danny Salazar is pitching in Akron tomorrow for a rehab stint.

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Indians Prospective‏ @indiansPro
Scrappers currently has the top three league leaders in Hits in the NYPL after 10 games:
Ulysses Cantu 15
Oscar Gonzalez 14
Samad Taylor 14

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Source: #Indians favorites to sign 5'11 160bs 16yr old INF Jose Tena out of Dominican Republic. Tena July 2nd sign.

Just found out there is a lodge around the corner of the lake from our cabin. Has a bar, restaurant, and wifi. That is very cool. I'll make a point to get over there for a meal or couple drinks every day so I can check in on how the Indians and farm teams have done. Whether we win or lose I will be telling my wife that we beat Detroit. What she doesn't know won't kill her. Look forward to your updates, Civ. Thanks. Where are you going on your vacation?

Switzerland. We'll try not to fall off any mountains. My wife suggested we go now before we cannot hike around. I may have no access to baseball stats at all for awhile, but I've learned to live without when necessary.

Latest "Minor League Transactions" page at BA doesn't list any players releases by the Indians.