Congrats to all us fans here on the all time AL record.

Safe (incredibly safe) to say there are no bandwagoners here!!!

So after reading the recent article TFIR posted about the trade that brought us Kluber (for Westbrook) I was watching Clevinger yesterday and it all of a sudden occurred to me that damn near our entire rotation was brought in via trade. Clevinger came from Angels in Pestano deal. Carrasco came from Phillies in Cliff Lee trade. Bauer came from Arizona in trade that included Gregorious & Sipp.

So none of the four guys who are likely our pitching rotation come this October were home grown.

Tomlin was a draftee and Salazar an international signing.

Also, anybody that follows the Indians drafts and minor league system has probably read about the fascination the Indians have had in recent years with strike throwing college pitchers. Well as I was watching Kluber the other night I thought to myself, no wonder. Kluber had 8 K in 9 innings the other night, and no walks. Here is a guy who has only walked 34 batters all year, in 184 innings, while striking out 243. That walk to inning and walk to strikeout ratio is just amazing. His WHIP is only 0.86 too. Just crazy. If only some of these strike throwing pitchers we have been drafting can develop a slider like Kluber's now...

Watching Clevinger recently, he has had great success, and it is because he is throwing strikes. He has his troubles when he starts walking guys.

Anyway, just some random thoughts last couple days.

civ ollilavad wrote:I like that one!

I can note from a personal perspective that since my son got married, the Indians record is 23-3. Not nearly that good a winning percentage in my married life.

Watch yourself Civ!

As for strike throwers, I think I read that Carrasco is 34K 1BB during The Streak.

Bauer came from Arizona in trade that included Gregorious & Sipp. [don't forget we traded Choo, too]

civ ollilavad wrote:As for strike throwers, I think I read that Carrasco is 34K 1BB during The Streak.

Indians pitching, as an entire staff, have only walked 3 batters the last 45 innings. We were talking about errors yesterday, and how we have not been making many at all. Seems like if you don't walk batters or boot balls you greatly increase your chance of winning...

With an Indians win and an Angels loss tonight we will clinch a playoff berth.

There is a huge Chief Wahoo smiling in the middle of the page at Drudge Report with the headline "Cleveland Indians set MLB record with 22nd consecutive win"

The Indians have won 22 games in 22 days.

The Browns have won 22 games the last 2,153 days.

The Astros beat the Angels tonight so we have officially locked up a playoff spot.

The magic number to win division is 3.

Higher ratings mean more money to spend on players.



CLEVELAND, Ohio -- SportsTime Ohio posted its highest viewership ever for an Indians game on Thursday night when manager Terry Francona's team won its 22nd straight game with a 3-2 win over the Royals.

According to Nielsen, STO had a 20.44 HH rating for Thursday's victory, which gave the Indians the second longest winning streak in baseball's modern era (1900). A 20.44 HH rating represents over 306,000 homes in Northeast Ohio.

The previous high was this year's 19.58 HH rating for opening day.

Records just keep coming in. By starting the month of September 15-0 the Indians have tied the MLB record for most consecutive wins to start a month. 77 Royals and 91 Twins also did it.

After the game last night Jose sent out this tweet ...

Jose Ramirez‏ @MrLapara
#ResignBruce

Love it. Do not disappoint Jose, Indians.

I can't find this info online, but on TV broadcast last night they put something on the screen, a list of players who have hit 300 and had over 80 extra base hits in the same season. There were only 4 or 5 guys in history to have done that. I remember Ripper Collins, Chipper Jones and Mark Teixiera was on the list, but can't remember the other 1 or 2 guys.

Anyway, as long as Ramirez keeps his average above 300 these last couple weeks he will join that very short list. Very nice.

By the way, I didn't know much about Ripper Collins so I looked him up. in 1934 for the Cardinals he played in all 154 games. Had a slash line of 333/393/615/1.008. Hit 40 doubles, 12 triples, and 35 home runs. Numbers that were just huge in those days. And he still finished 6th in MVP voting. Are you kidding me?? Three players in front of him all played for the New York Giants, and all had inferior seasons. I guess big city media stirred the drink back then too. Dizzy Dean and Paul Waner finished 1st and 2nd in voting.