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Frazier who bats Right hits righties better than lefties. Nearly identical number of ABs as Zimmer's

vs LH: 37-9-9-1 243/317/405
vs RH: 127-30-41-20 333/424/588

Bradley, who bats left like Zimmer, shows power against everyone:

vs LH 54-9-10-10 of the 10 hits, only 2 are singles; 4 2b, 4 hr; 185/323/481
vs RH 115-20-27-33 better singles hitter here with 14 of them; and 6 2b 7 hr; 235/378/470

Greg Allen has been stealing bases like crazy too. 27 steals and 43 runs already.

Indians Prospective ‏@indiansPro · 1 hour ago
Source: #Indians favorites sign 6'1 175lbs 16yr old 3B Nehemias Celestin (Santo Domingo DR)
https://youtu.be/4inTayj8MyY

Indians Prospective ‏@indiansPro · May 23
Source: #Indians favorites to sign 5'10 165lbs 16yr old SS Jesus Maestre out of Cumana, Venezuela when International signing begins July 2nd

don't think I posted Sunday highlights:

CLE AAA Diaz, Yandy 3B 3 0 2 0 .302 2B (6)
CLE HiA Allen, Greg CF 3 1 1 0 .268 BB (27)
CLE HiA Mathias, Mark 2B 4 0 1 0 .245
CLE LoA Krieger, Tyler 2B 4 0 1 0 .331
CLE LoA Mejia, Francisco DH 1 0 1 0 .303
CLE LoA Tom, Ka'ai CF 4 0 1 0 .341 BB (20) [on base nearly 1/2 the time; not a big basestealer however]
CLE AA Plutko, Adam 7 2 1 1 1 4 2.66
CLE MAJ Clevinger, Mike 4 4 4 4 3 4 8.79

Monday: Lots of good hitting by the shortstops. Meanwhile, Yandy got a start at 2nd base with Urshela at 3rd, and Ronnie Rodriguez moved to RF for the Clippers.

CLE AA Rodriguez, Nellie 1B 3 0 1 0 .259 2B (12), BB (22)
CLE AAA Gonzalez, Erik SS 6 1 5 3 .305 2B (11)
CLE AAA Naquin, Tyler CF 5 0 2 1 .299 3B (1), BB (7), SB (1)
CLE HiA Allen, Greg CF 3 1 1 1 .269 HR (2), 2 BB (29)
CLE HiA Bradley, Bobby 1B 4 1 1 0 .220
CLE HiA Chang, Yu-Cheng SS 4 0 1 1 .261 3B (3)
CLE HiA Mathias, Mark 2B 5 1 1 0 .244
CLE LoA Castro, Willi SS 4 1 1 2 .263 HR (4), SB (6)
CLE LoA Krieger, Tyler 2B 3 0 1 0 .331 2B (9), BB (22), CS (4)

3 Lefites:
CLE AA Kaminsky, Rob 2.1 3 2 1 1 4 4.68 [back from DL, for a change he K'd more than he walked]
CLE HiA Lugo, Luis 6 7 3 3 2 7 4.78 [making no progress]
CLE MAJ Merritt, Ryan 4.1 1 0 0 0 2 0.00

Indians Prospective
Source #Indians favorites sign 5'11 165lbs 16yr old SS Marcos Gonzalez (Dominican Republic)

youtu.be/rEKZZkaBbeY

Tuesday:

CLE AA Frazier, Clint DH 4 1 1 1 .311 BB (24) [he's back]
CLE AA Rodriguez, Nellie 1B 4 1 1 1 .259 BB (23)
CLE AAA Gonzalez, Erik SS 4 0 2 0 .309
CLE LoA Castro, Willi SS 3 2 1 0 .264 2 BB (6)
CLE LoA Krieger, Tyler DH 3 1 1 0 .332 2 BB (24)
CLE AA Morimando, Shawn 6 6 2 1 1 2 1.64 W (9-0) [he can't lose and has stopped walking guys: on to Columbus]
CLE MAJ Armstrong, Shawn 1 2 1 1 0 0 9.00 [wasn't pitching well in Columbus and I'm sure he'll be back there soon]

BA looks at middle infielders putting up big numbers and considers whether the power potential is a "fact" or a "fluke"


SS Yu-Cheng Chang
High Class A Lynchburg (Indians)

AB 2B 3B HR AVG SLG ISO
180 14 2 6 .261 .461 .200


The Case: As with most players on this list—they are middle infielders, after all—Chang has more power than his lithe frame belies. He barrels the ball with regularity.

The Verdict: Fluke. Lynchburg’s Calvin Falwell Field does help power play up, and Chang’s swing is more geared for line drives.

This "little guy" is 6-1 175.
In Lake County last year he had 16 doubles, 4 triples and 9 homers, isolated power of 129.
In Arizona the previous season his xb hits were 9, 4 and 6 in a short season and his isolated power was 220.
This year doesn't look all that flukey to me.

Mike Papi promoted to AA

Up or out.

I'd expect quite a lot of churning as soon as signees from the new draft class start arriving.

Wednesday:

CLE AA Frazier, Clint LF 5 0 2 0 .314 [we need outfielders, maybe he and Zimm will be moving up to Columbus?]
CLE AAA Diaz, Yandy 3B 3 0 1 0 .258 3B (2)
CLE HiA Allen, Greg CF 3 1 1 0 .270 2 BB (31)
CLE HiA Bradley, Bobby 1B 3 2 2 2 .227 HR (12), BB (36) [avg stinks but he walks and hits homers and he's only 20]
CLE HiA Chang, Yu-Cheng SS 4 0 2 1 .266 2 2B (16), BB (18) [not a real power threat says BA]
CLE HiA Mathias, Mark 2B 4 0 1 1 .244
CLE LoA Krieger, Tyler 2B 4 1 1 0 .330
CLE LoA Mejia, Francisco C 4 1 1 0 .302
CLE LoA Tom, Ka'ai LF 4 1 1 0 .323

He didn't do too much to earn it, but Mike Papi promoted to Akron. Well his OPS is not bad since he walks plenty and has a good total of xb hits, but his batting average at Lynchburg was no better than in 2015.

2015: 236/362/356
2016: 236/370/450 which sounds like an improvement, but actually he was lousy in May, his 2016 splits:

April: 261/422/436
May: 211/313/366

I think they just needed another OF in Akron since Myles and Smith are both needed in Columbus with Naquin gone and Robbie Grossman departed to greener pastures and Michael Choice almost always on the DL.