Indians remaining patient in April

Hey, How About Nick Blackburn?

Babes Love Baseball found this 4/20/2008 on scuffedballs.blogspot.com

You may notice that over the years we don't care much around here about the NBA playoffs. We'd much rather a good pitcher's duel than watch Game 1 of Round 1 of the aforementioned NBA playoffs. And we got one when we watched the Twins play the ...

Is It The Release Point?

RockKing posted 4/20/2008 from www.waitingfornextyear.com

It’s no secret that one of the biggest concerns with the Cleveland Indians thus far is the ineffectiveness of would-be “ace” C.C. Sabathia. His walk rate is uncharacteristically high, his location has been average-at-best, and he simply has been unable to get batters out. Thankfully, there are people out there like Josh Kalk who do excellent work studying pitching data, and provide us all ...

Just Another Wasted Effort

RockKing posted 4/21/2008 from www.waitingfornextyear.com

What a summer of discontent this is shaping up to be. April is barely halfway over and already the Indians are baffling all of their followers, as well as themselves, as the team has now frustratingly sputtered to a 7-12 start this year. Sunday was just par for the course, as the Indians dropped yet another game and yet another series as they fell to the Twins 2-1 in 10 innings...

Barry Bonds: Incognito

Big League Stew found this 4/21/2008 on www.waitingfornextyear.com

While not exactly Cleveland news, I thought the player photo on Barry Bonds’ RotoWorld page deserved some attention. Not that I can blame Bonds. I’d try to pretend that I was Tom Glavine as well if I were in his situation.

Roto Chronicles: American League – April 21

m_taylor13 posted 4/21/2008 from seamheads.com

It’s a long season, let’s practice a little patience. While you may start getting frustrated with the start of a couple of your star players, it is still worth waiting awhile longer as the season settles into a rhythm before acting upon their initial disappontment. Though, at the same time try to send out feelers and see if anybody might be willing to part with a C.C. Sabathia or Robinson ...