The good news: the Tribe managed to win a series. The bad news: the fire sale might be starting sooner than we expected. That's becuase Victor Martinez will undergo surgery Friday to remove bone chips in his right elbow and will be out the next 6-8 weeks. Josh Barfield also hit the DL yesterday. The Indians promoted catcher Yamid Haad and infielder Jorge Valendia (don't worry, I never heard of them either) to take their places. And Travis Hafner will still be out of the lineup at least through the team's next road trip to Colorado and LA. Add that to Jake Westbrook's season-ending injury and Tommy John surgery, and Fausto Carmona's hip injury, and the roster looks more like a M.A.S.H. unit. I now fully expect Paul Byrd and CC Sabathia to be dealt, among others.
Last night was encouraging from an offensive standpoint with the Tribe banging out a season-high 18 hits in a 12-2 win over the Twins. The offense was highlighted by Jamey Carroll's 4-hit night, and Shin-Soo Choo's 3-run homer. Aaron Laffey got the win, going 6 strong innings, giving up only one run. His ERA is now down to 2.83. And the team is still only 6.5 games behind the White Sox, even with all the struggles and injuries. But that's my optimistic side coming out. My realistic side is preparing for wholesale roster changes shortly. We resume interleague play tonight at the Prog with the Padres coming to town. Yours truly will be in attendance, so I fully expect to be disappointed with the results. Tonight it will be Jeremy Sowers against Josh Banks.
Laffey was solid again on Thursday nightCavs Update: It's official, Big Z is out of the Olympics for Lithuania. My heart hurts a little for him as this may be his last chance to represent his country. But the selfish Cavalier fan in me says this is great news for him to be 100% next year, resting his ailing back.
2 comments:
The Lithuanians LOVE Ilgauskas. I met up with an old friend last year when I was home. We were both at Game 3 of the NBA finals. He had this huge camera and was taking shots solely of Ilgauskas to send back home to a media organization ( he even had a media pass). Turns out he had been paid to attend Cavs' games all year to do it. Lucky bum.
The season is pretty close to over for the Tribe. What a huge disappointment. The sad thing is that they sucked even before all the injuries. They'd better not pull one of those "We like the team the way it is" stunts like they did after last season.
ON an unrelated note, my husband works in the non medical related end of medicine. I was not so lucky. I worked in the GI department. The only places on earth where you can find more a$$holes in one year is Boston and Ann Arbor.
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I need the Cavs to start paying me to go to games, instead of the other way around, LOL.
And nice dig there about Boston and Ann Arbor. I agree 100%.
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