The 2013 Cleveland Indians

Stark said:

Any realistic chance that Salazar gets brought up to work out of the bullpen in August? I feel like he'd be an upgrade over Albers.

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AZ_ said:

What is the value of improving your long-man over having Salazar ready to join the rotation by keeping him stretched out in AAA?

Not enough to warrant the move, IMO. Also Albers has been doing his job well.

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bigfoot5415 said:

Ive wondered what happened to Tomlin

Also Carrasco, Dice K, and Myers.


Hell..put some of those guys in the pen.

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Stark said:

Myers is dead. Dice-K wouldn't really be an improvement over anybody in the pen. Carrasco has no options left.

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MoFlo said:

Carrasco has already been up & down this season, so he can continue to be brought up & down as many times as we like. We won't be able to send him down without waiving him starting Opening Day 2014.

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Stark said:

I didn't know that.

I thought if a player had "three options" for example, they could only be sent up/down three times and then they were out of options. Thanks for correcting me.

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Stark said:

I didn't know that.

I thought if a player had "three options" for example, they could only be sent up/down three times and then they were out of options. Thanks for correcting me.

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kevinoc0 said:

Just a quick question my dad posed to me last night after he got back from the game:

Does anyone know just how many pitches Sandy calls for Santana? The old man noticed that Carlos looks over to the dugout constantly to get certain calls from Sandy. I know its a random question, but I figured most of you have picked up on it too.

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AZ_ said:

Generally it's dependent on the hitter. Sometimes they will coordinate on certain guys in the lineups or in certain situations than warrant the pitches being called from the dugout.

Some catchers are given more rope than others, but I'd imagine having Alomar on the bench for situations like this is a big asset.

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DJTJ said:

Is the coordination a general direction? Like a blue print where pitcher A has a certain repertoire of pitches and batter B doesn't hit (for example) well low and away, but hits great above the belt, and Sandy would be sending in "work away" but not necessarily the order of pitches?

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AZ_ said:

Everyday when the starting pitcher gets to the ballpark, he and that night's catcher along with the pitching coach (or other coach who is the opposing lineup strategist) will go through the lineup that night and discuss how they will attack each individual hitter in certain situations.

A blueprint would be a good word to use, as they'll take a look at film and their scouting reports to formulate a gameplan against the opposition.

It's amazing the tools they have at their discretion to make these kinds of plans, but at the end of the day it's all about the pitcher going out to execute pitches when the game starts.

Callaway, Alomar and whoever seems to be doing the majority of planning for the staff this year is doing an incredible job IMO.

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DJTJ said:

Is it safe to make a

pitching/hitting coach is the OC who calls the right strategic play

catcher is the equivalent of a center/OL who calls out blocking schemes

pitcher is the QB who has to execute the plays called with as few errors as possible

in regards to the catcher/pitcher/coach situation?

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