I was wondering how long it would take to his first HR as a pro. None last year in MHV but comes through in game 1 of 2013.

McDade with a 2 bi 2b for the Clippers who move ahead 3-2.

I was going to purchase the MILB dot TV package but at forty bucks for the year, I decided not to. Mostly triple A games. The Aeros and the Mudcats have about 12 games each throughout the year. I decided it wasn't worth it. I could have gotten the season for half price with my MLB dot TV package but I didn't see the ad quick enough. Too much of a hastle to cancel and re-subscribe.

Lindor finished his Carolina debut with 3 hits, one a triple and a walk and a steal.
Naquin in his debut with a single, a double, a homer, walk and 4 rbi.
At Lake County, Paulino was hitless with 2 errors.
Luigi Rodriguez repeating in Lake County had 2 hits.
Pitching highlights were Ryan Merritt's 5 innings, 1 run for the Captains; Cody Anderson's 6 innings, 1 run for Mudcats. TJ House 5 innings 1 run in Akron. Kluber 6 innings 3 runs for Columbus.

All the boxes are here:

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Ramirez and Lindor keeping up their offense.

Aeros won 13-3. Ramirez with 3 singles and a walk. He's batting an even 500. Aguillar added 3 singles for 5 rbi.

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Mudcats won 6-2. Lindor singled, doubled and stole a base. Hitting 545 in 3 games. Joe Wendle singled and homred for 4 rbi. Shawm Morimano 4 scoreless innings but walked 4

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Clippers lost 3-1. Juan Diaz hittless is batting .062

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Captains fall 7-1. Prospect 2 years ago Jake Sisco 5 1/3 3 hits, 2 are solo homers, 3 walks, 2 k. Eric Haase 2 hits (he's a catcher). Nellie Rodriguez power hitting maybe 1b, 18 years old, 0-2 with 2 walks. He's 0-11 with 5 K and 5 Walks; so the patience is good, just needs some contact.

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Last week's transactions:

Cleveland Indians

Released: RHP Antwonie Hubbard, OF Jordan Henry, OF Jeremie Tice

Traded: C Brian Jeroloman to Pirates for future considerations

Added to 40-man roster: LHP Scott Kazmir, OF Ryan Raburn

Optioned to Triple-A: LHP Nick Hagadone

Optioned to Double-A: RHP Robert Whitenack

Option transferred: RHP Trey Haley, RHP Danny Salazar, LHP T.J. House (all three players Triple-A to Double-A) {I thought Haley was ready for Columbus; not yet}

Removed from 40-man: LHP David Huff (outrighted to Triple-A)

Placed on 7-day DL: RHP Austin Adams, RHP Joseph Colon, RHP Clayton Cook, RHP Trey Haley, RHP Chen Lee, RHP Mason Radeke, LHP Elvis Araujo, LHP Mike Rayl, LHP Tyler Sturdevant, C Xavier de los Santos, C Alex Monsalve, 2B Cord Phelps, 2B Nate Spears, 3B Kyle Bellows, OF Bo Greenwell, OF Matt LaPorta [Adams, Haley, Lee, Sturdevant all were on their way upward as relievers. Araujo has tons of talent but often injured. Rayl has made slow modest progress as a starter. Joe is far of Joe Colon. Greenwell is hurt more often than not, like Rayl had shown some improvement over the years, but not much.]

Notable lines from Sunday per BA:

CLE AA Aguilar, Jesus 1B 4 2 3 5 .313
CLE AA Ramirez, Jose SS 4 4 3 0 .500 BB (1)
CLE AAA Gomes, Yan C 4 0 1 0 .333 2B (2)
CLE HiA Lindor, Francisco SS 4 0 2 1 .545 2B (1), SB (2)

Lots of guys on that 7 day DL. I wonder if a sunburn gets you on that list. Seems like they're stashing some guys till they figure out what to do with them.

Unfortunately I think a bunch of them actually are hurt, or are rehabbing. That's the case with Adams and Strudevant and Lee and Greenwell.

Clippers won 7-2 but few performances of note. Fedroff 2hits. Diaz 2 hits. Huff 5 walks in 4 2/3. Hagadone 2 walks and 2 hits in 1/3.

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Aeros won 5-3. Ramirez singles and walks. Ronnie Rodriguez singles and triples. 2 hits by OFs Carlos Moncrief and Quincy Latimore. Nonprospect Toru Murata 7-3-1-1-0-9, Flores and Armstrong each touched for a run in an inning,.

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Mudcats fall 7-6 behind miserable start by Will Roberts, 7 runs in 6 innings. Offense: Naquin 2 hits, Myles 2 hits, double; Wendle 3 hits, double; Lindor single and 2 walks, 3 steals!

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Captains drop their game 6-5. Paulino with a good bad day: 2 hits, caught stealing, error #3. Eric Haase 2 hits, double. Dyllan Baker, high 2012 draftee, was very good for 4 shutout innings, then lets in 4 runs in the 5th. Fisnished with this line: 5-3-4-4-1-7

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Lindor is off and rolling in High A. He's hitting, walking and stealing and we know he's a great fielder. Indians are moving him cautiously so far but I doubt he will spend 3 full seasons at the three levels he has yet to complete. Here's a good story from January on Lindor, could have been posted before but I don't remember this interview:



2013 MLB.com Top Prospects: Francisco Lindor is a tremendous defensive shortstop with a good approach from both sides of the plate

CLEVELAND -- Indians shortstop prospect Francisco Lindor wants to achieve greatness over the course of his career on a baseball diamond. Standing inside the visitors' clubhouse at Progressive Field on a recent afternoon, the young shortstop was asked which area he hopes to improve in the coming season.

"Everything," he replied. "I want to be the greatest player ever ..."

Lindor paused briefly, but the hesitation was long enough for reporters to glance up from their notepads, wondering if they heard him correctly. The eighth-overall pick in the 2011 Draft is just 19 years old, but he was polished enough to swiftly recognize a headline-grabbing comment, and mature enough to recover and show that humility is indeed an attribute.

"... that I can possibly be," Lindor continued, finishing the thought. "I don't want to come here and when I retire, look back, and say, 'I didn't give it my all.' I want to come here, give it my all every day, get better, and become the greatest player I can be to help this organization win a championship."

Ask the Indians, ask a scout, an evaluator, ask anyone who has seen Lindor play, and you will receive a steady stream of superlatives.

On Tuesday night, Lindor's rising star was included in MLB.com's Top 100 Prospects list for 2013. The Lindor was rated as baseball's 14th-best prospect, and he was ranked second among shortstops. Only Texas' Jurickson Profar -- No. 1 on the overall list -- ranked higher at the position.

Cleveland starter Trevor Bauer -- acquired from Arizona earlier this offseason in a three-team, nine-player trade -- was ranked 17th overall among the game's elite prospects.

The annual ranking of baseball's biggest and brightest young talent is assembled by MLB.com's Draft and prospect expert Jonathan Mayo, who compiles input from industry sources, including scouts and scouting directors. It is based on analysis of players' skill sets, upsides, closeness to the Majors and potential immediate impact to their teams.

The list, which is one of several prospect rankings on MLB.com's Prospect Watch, only includes players with rookie status in 2013.

Lindor is likely to continue climbing up the board, considering he is still at the Class A level within the Indians' farm system. But after only two professional seasons, Lindor has shown the Tribe flashes of a potential star and leader in the making.

In fact, it is the lofty expectations which present one of Lindor's biggest challenges.

"I think the biggest thing for him will be dealing with external and his own expectations of himself," said Ross Atkins, the Indians' vice president of player development. "It will be not creating a time frame, and then his supreme confidence and wanting to be the guy, and potentially trying to do too much. It's very cliche, but it's also very real."

Bauer was taken third overall in 2011, five slots ahead of Lindor. While the right-hander also has just two pro seasons on his resume, playing collegiate baseball at UCLA prepared the 22-year-old for a swift rise through the Minor Leagues.

Bauer went 12-2 with a 2.42 ERA between Double-A and Triple-A in 2012, but had mixed results in a four-outing stint with the D-backs. This spring, the righty will be in Major League camp with the Indians with a chance to win a spot in the rotation.

Lindor, on the other hand, was drafted out of high school and entered Cleveland's system in need of a longer development plan. Last year, the shortstop spent the entire season with Class A (low) Lake County, where he hit .257 with a .352 on-base percentage and a .355 slugging percentage. Lindor mixed in six homers, 24 doubles, three triples, 27 stolen bases and 83 runs in 122 games.

Defensively, the Indians expected Lindor to be solid. He actually did a little more in the batter's box than the team anticipated for a young player facing his first full season.

"The starting point couldn't have been higher," Atkins said, "and he still exceeded [expectations], because of his maturity and awareness."

Lindor did struggle some with the transition from playing a few high school games per week to taking the field almost daily for five months in the Minors. The shortstop was hitting .301 with an .804 on-base plus slugging percentage on May 23, but hit just .235 (66-for-281) across June, July and August.

"That was the biggest adjustment," Lindor said. "Adjusting to coming to the field every day, practicing every day, keeping the same routine every day and working hard."

One encouraging element within Lindor's second-half slump was his plate discipline.

Lindor hit .285 in the season's first half (249 at-bats), during which he churned out 20 extra-base hits and 71 hits overall. In the second half (241 at-bats), the shortstop's average was only .228, but he nearly had as many walks (35) as strikeouts (36) and he scored 42 runs.

"His ability speaks for itself," Atkins said. "I think the fact that he dealt with some of the ebb and flow of a natural season the first time [was good]. The most games he'd ever played before last year was in the 40s, and last year he played close to 200 if you count the two instructional leagues. It's really unbelievable."

Lindor learned a lot through it all.

"No matter what happens," Lindor said, "no matter how tired you are, you've got to be tough about it. You've got to work hard, grind it out and give it your all."

BA's highlighted lines. I think I noted most of these above.

CLE AA Rodriguez, Ronny SS 4 1 2 1 .286 3B (1)
CLE AAA Diaz, Juan SS 4 1 2 0 .150 2B (1)
CLE AAA Fedroff, Tim CF 5 2 2 0 .217
CLE HiA Lindor, Francisco SS 3 0 1 1 .500 2 BB (3), 3 SB (5)
CLE HiA Naquin, Tyler CF 5 1 2 0 .375
CLE LoA Paulino, Dorssys SS 4 1 2 0 .250 CS (1) [they left out the error]

CLE AA Armstrong, Shawn 1 1 1 1 0 0 4.50
CLE LoA Baker, Dylan 5 3 4 4 1 7 7.20
CLE MAJ Allen, Cody 1 0 0 0 0 0 6.75
C

Three teams played, three teams lost. Not a lot of impressive individual performances.

CLE AA Urshela, Giovanny 3B 4 1 2 0 .222
CLE AAA Fedroff, Tim LF 3 0 2 0 .269 2B (1), BB (1)

Notable but not any better than our major league starters:

CLE AA Salazar, Danny 2.2 7 4 4 1 3 5.87 L (0-2)

At least the Mudcats had a great day.

Clippers using all relievers have a 3-0 lead after 7. Matt Langwell with 3 innings, Scott Barnes with 2, neither had much trouble or walked anyone. Matt Capps with the next 2, no walks or Ks.

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Aeros washed out.

Carolina won big, 12-1. Cody Anderson with his second strong start: 5-5-1-1-2-5

3 hits each by:
Naquin, one a triple, hitting 346
LIndor, one a double, hitting 458
Myles, one a double, one a homer, also a steal. 5 rbi 421

2 hits each by:
Wendle, Smith, Wolters, Lowery

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Lake County rained out.

Yesterday's notable lines:

CLE AAA Diaz, Juan SS 4 0 1 2 .148 2B (2)
CLE HiA Lindor, Francisco SS 6 2 3 1 .458 3B (2)
CLE HiA Naquin, Tyler CF 6 1 3 1 .346 3B (1)
CLE HiA Smith, Jordan RF 4 1 2 1 .208 2B (2), BB (3)
CLE HiA Wolters, Tony DH 5 2 2 1 .111 BB (3), SB (1); First two hits of the season

CLE AAA Barnes, Scott 2 1 0 0 0 1 3.00 W (1-0)
CLE HiA Anderson, Cody 5 5 1 1 2 5 1.64 W (2-0)