Cleveland Sports Forum

Bradley keeps winning MVP awards, and he's one of the youngest players in his league and he does walk a lot. So I guess the "experts" or his opposing managers are impressed. I could consider Chang as higher on my personal list, since he's a middle infielder with lots of offense. And again, since I don't see him, I'll ask for reviews of his defense from anyone who's seen him play.

I said Bradley was disappointing "to me". I'm allowed an opinion, I don't care what award he has won. He looks like Rusell Branyan with less power to me. Who, oh by the way, won the Sally League MVP with 40 homers one year. Awards mean nothing. He hit 39 the next year. Never amounted to anything worthwhile in my opinion. But glad opposing managers were impressed with the 450 foot homers.

I think there are many sides to this game other then just looking at stats......

yep.

Rusty and Hillbilly, who would you be rating your top 3-5 Indians prospects at this point?

I don't think this will shock you any but my list would probably be Frankie Mejia, Triston McKenzie, and Yandy Diaz.

I don't care about draft positions or tools. I base my list strictly on who I think will become a contributing every day major leaguer. Frankie I think can be an all star regular. It's still early but McKenzie sure looks like he can be special too. Yandy I put at 3 cause I think he ca be a good every day player.

I've seen Yandy Diaz play.

http://www.milb.com/multimedia/vpp.jsp? ... 3&sid=t445

Now you have too!

But the reason why I wanted to post that video from last week, check out this hit heat map for Diaz ...
One of the reasons why I like him so much. He uses the whole field, with some pop.

Clips win 10-2. This is at least 3 games in a row Yandy has missed. Maybe more, I forget. ... Zimmer 1-5 with a double and 2 K's.

Akron wins 8-6. Both them and Columbus have been playing well lately. Ready for the playoffs. Yan Gomes goes 2-3 with a walk tonight. Allen goes 1-5 but the 1 was a homer. He's hitting .290. ... Papi goes 1-3 with yet another homer. And has an OF assist. What the heck, where has this guy been?

By the way, speaking of Greg Allen ... Do yourself a favor and watch this catch he made against Bowie on Sunday night ...

http://www.milb.com/multimedia/vpp.jsp? ... 3&sid=t402

That's as fine a catch as you'll see.

Lynchburg finishes up their season with a 4-0 shutout win. Thomas Pannone pitches yet another gem. 7 shutout innings, 3 hits, 8K. Been telling you about this dude. Don't forget about him. He finishes season at High A with 1.65 ERA in 8 games. ... Frankie goes 2-3 with a double and a walk. He finishes season with Hillcats at .333.. Bradley 0-4 with a K. He finishes season at .235.

Lake County finishes the season with a 9th inning walk off win, 4-3. Calica went 1-4 with a steal. He finishes up at .359 at LC. ... The man the myth the legend, Ben Krauth, finishes the season on a positive note with 1 shutout inning. Finishing with an ERA of 3.00.

The Scrappers hit 4 home runs to lead them to a massive blowout win in their season finale, 17-1, on 17 hits. Gabe Mejia had a nice finish after struggling lately. He was 1-4 with 2 walks and 3 steals. He finishes at .322.. Todd Isaacs went 4-5 with a homer and finished at .333 in NYPL.

Indians Prospective @IndiansPro

#Indians 2016 Milb (ERA) leaders by SP 80+ IP

Triston McKenzie 1.62
Thomas Pannone 2.57
Julian Merryweather 2.60
Michael Clevinger 3.00

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#Indians 2016 Milb (ERA) leaders by SP 80+ IP

Triston McKenzie 1.62
Thomas Pannone 2.57
Julian Merryweather 2.60
Michael Clevinger 3.00

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#Indians final 2016 Milb (SO/9) leaders by RP 40+ IP

Shawn Armstrong 13.6
J.P. Feyereisen 12.5
Leandro Linares 11.1
Ben Heller 10.4

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#Indians final 2016 Milb (SO/9) leaders by SP 80+ IP

Triston McKenzie 11.2
Mitch Brown 11.0
Mike Clevinger 9.4
Matt Esparza 9.1

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#Indians final 2016 Milb (Strikeout) leaders

Matt Esparza 141
Adam Plutko 130
Thomas Pannone 122
D.J. Brown 120
Mitch Brown 120

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#Indians final 2016 Milb (OBP) leaders 400+ PA

Greg Allen .416
Yandy Diaz .408
Francisco Mejia .382
Tyler Krieger .377
Nathan Lukes .369

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#Indians 2016 Milb (AVG) leaders 400+ PA

Francisco Mejia .342
Yandy Diaz .318
Tyler Krieger .299
Nathan Lukes .299
Connor Marabell .298

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#Indians final 2016 Milb (Runs) leaders

Greg Allen 119
Anthony Santander 90
Tyler Krieger 84
Bobby Bradley 82
Yu-Cheng Chang 78

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#Indians final 2016 Milb (SB) leaders

Greg Allen 45
Bradley Zimmer 38
Gabriel Mejia 28
Todd Hankins 21
Tyler Krieger 21
Jordan Smith 17

Indians Prospective
Hillcats RP Mitch Brown @MitchyBeee55 since move to the pen he's been (SO) batters at tremendous rate
20.2(IP) 36SO (15.73 SO/9)

Mahoning Valley Scrappers RHP Aaron Civale @Silent_Cival_17 over his last 5 outings:
- 15(IP) 4H 2R 1ER 3BB 10SO 0.60 ERA #Indians

#Indians RHP @SArmstrong90 has not allowed a (Run) over his last 20 Milb appearances:
1-0 5SV 21.0(IP) 8H 0R 0ER 6BB 30SO #Indians

#Indians 2016 11th Round Pick OF Andrew Calica has the highest Batting Average & wRC+ of any Milb player above 200+ PA
AVG) .385
wRC+ 208

Thanks for the statistical highlights, my thing, and for the Allen video, quite a catch all right, once you get past the dog video.

ba game notes highlight some lesser renowned Tribe pitchers and an ex-

Clint Frazier, rf, Yankees. Frazier, the key component in the trade that sent Andrew Miller to the Indians, returned from a week on the disabled list because of a hamstring issue and homered in his first at-bat Monday for Triple-A Scranton-Wilkes/Barre in the final regular season game. It was Frazier’s third homer since the trade.

Tanner Tully, lhp, Indians. Tully, the Indians’ 26th-round pick in June, doesn’t have "rock-star stuff," as his former head coach at Ohio State, Greg Beals, would say. But he does get outs. Tully on Monday pitched five shutout innings as short-season Mahoning Valley pounded West Virginia (Pirates) 17-1. Tully’s fastball sits 88-90 but he locates well. He doesn’t miss many bats—4.8 strikeouts per nine innings—but he’s been effective, albeit against players who might not be very experienced. Overall, he was 4-1, 1.17 in his pro debut.

Thomas Pannone, lhp, Indians. A former outfielder who was a ninth-round pick out of JC of Southern Nevada in 2013, Pannone quietly had a solid season in low Class A and high Class A. It ended Monday with seven shutout innings for Lynchburg in a 4-0 win over Salem (Red Sox). Pannone is not overpowering, with a fastball in the low 90s, but he locates well. He was 7-5, 2.71 overall with 114 strikeouts in 126 innings.

CLE AA Allen, Greg CF 5 1 1 1 .290 HR (3)
CLE AA Papi, Mike LF 3 1 1 2 .228 HR (8), BB (41) [if the season could have just gone on awhile, he could've finished at 250]
CLE AAA Zimmer, Bradley CF 5 1 1 0 .242 2B (5)
CLE HiA Castro, Willi DH 4 0 2 0 .222 CS (1)
CLE HiA Mejia, Francisco C 3 1 2 0 .333 2B (12), BB (13)
CLE MAJ Naquin, Tyler CF 2 0 1 0 .303
CLE MAJ Clevinger, Mike 1.2 2 1 1 2 3 5.30 L (2-2)

Yes it was, but this year I'll take what video I can get. I subscribe to sports pack on DirecTV and once in a great while Akron or Columbus will be on a televised game but not very often. And the Tribe has been so fun to watch this summer that I didn't bother with MiLBTV. So most of the time all I get to see is highlights on video like that.

As a Rhode Island homer.....rooting for Pannone.

So our teams start their playoff series Wednesday night.

Clippers will be playing Braves AAA team in Columbus with Plutko toe'ing the rubber.

Ducks will be playing at Altoona with Merryweather pitching game 1.

Hillcats play at Potomac with Esparza pitching.

Clippers are going to be hard-pressed with a depleted roster [no Gonzalez, no Adam Moore; missing much of their bullpen] but still have Gio, Yandy and Jesus to lead the way.