2015 Spring Training Thread

[EdMonix11]

Its early in Spring Training and he's not going to make the team but I like Destin Hood as a possible platoon player somewhere down the road.

 

[elcheato]

View: https://twitter.com/Indians/status/575760729271201792

 

[Real Deal]

View: https://twitter.com/Indians/status/575760729271201792

I really want to hear his name called by Tom Hamilton come home opener but i highly doubt it. I read a funny article how the Indians will be cheap and leave him in the minors for a while. But then again there's really nowhere to put him considering the growth of Jose unless Injury. The defense has also been much improved. We have a problem up the middle.

 

[BMAN]

Oh enough with the bullshit cheap talk. Every team does it with their prospects.

 

[MoFlo]

View: https://twitter.com/Indians/status/575764881552494593


If Moss stays healthy, he's gonna have a huge year, IMO.

 

[AZ_]

Has absolutely nothing to do with being cheap, everything to do with earning an extra year of cost-controlled production from an elite player.

 

[macbdog]

Has absolutely nothing to do with being cheap, everything to do with earning an extra year of cost-controlled production from an elite player.

Sacrificing a full year of control of a good young player is something the Browns would do. As people have noted, every team does this. It just makes sense. And I don't get the rush to bump off Ramirez, who at the very least is building his trade value.

 

[AZ_]

Keith Law scouted the Indians yesterday:

Cleveland right-hander Danny Salazar failed to complete two innings Tuesday, looking like his (good) 2013 self in the first inning and then like his (bad) 2014 self in for the second, an outing that can't give their front office a ton of confidence about his development. Salazar has No. 1 starter stuff, sitting 93-97 with a hard splitter at 84-86 and slider at the same velocities. He breezed through the first inning, although it was power over command, but when Billy Butlersmoked a hanger over the left field wall in the second, Salazar began to come apart at the seams, rushing through his delivery and getting more cross-body, losing what little command he had in the process. It's less about a bad outing than about his reaction to the adversity on the field; his delivery isn't one that gets better by speeding it up -- few do, really -- so if that's how he adjusts, he's going to exacerbate whatever's already going wrong.

Cleveland right-hander Cody Anderson, the team's 10th-best prospect coming into this season, was very impressive in an inning of relief. He struggled last year in Double-A as a starter, but was 94-96 with plus-plus sink in an inning of work Wednesday, showing a hard slider at 89 mph and throwing strikes. He comes from a high three-quarters slot that helps him get that downhill plane on the fastball, and his delivery works well enough for him to start. I imagine he'll go to Triple-A or even back to Double-A briefly to continue to work in the rotation, as he has the size and delivery to be a workhorse but has limited experience as a converted outfielder who didn't pitch full-time until 2012.

Francisco Lindor, the sixth-best prospect in all of baseball and the best prospect in Cleveland's system, made a quick impression in his first at-bat, smoking a triple to the left-center warning track while batting left-handed, reaching third base on a great read of the outfielders' positioning as he rounded second base. He then scored on a routine groundout to shortstop without drawing a throw because his jump off third was so good. He also had one tough play at shortstop and handled it without any trouble, showing why his hands are considered some of the best of any prospect in the game.

Cleveland also used 30-year-old right-hander Dustin Molleken, signed as a minor league free agent from Milwaukee this winter, for an inning, where he was 92-96 and flashed an average or slightly better slider at 84-87. He doesn't have a great delivery, with a high finish and short stride, but I could see him contributing as the 11th or 12th man on a staff if he can throw enough strikes.

 

[AZ_]

Hearing rumblings that he's just not looking right, hate to see what's happened to him over the last year.

Really hope he turns this around.

 

[Huber.]

It was bound to happen sometime with that wonky delivery.

 

[elcheato]

http://m.indians.mlb.com/cle/video/v53508283/?affiliateId=clubMEGAMENU
My god

 

[AZ_]

 

[AZ_]

Lindor was re-assigned today.

My gut feeling is that he'll be back to the big league roster at some point....soon.

 

[The Oi]

Based on the Tribe's Spring Training record, this year will be just as brutal as I called.

 

[jlegg21]

http://m.indians.mlb.com/cle/video/v53508283/?affiliateId=clubMEGAMENU
My god

Holy shit. A 480 footer... at least.