thanks guys. One request however: Joe, could you remove your political comment from your tag line. I may agree with your point of view or maybe I don't but please lets keep politics out of the foreground of the forum.

Civ! Done! No Signatures!

Thanks Joe; good to "see you" again!

Zimmer two errors in the last two games, one a kind of dopey throw. I like to hope he's putting his problems behind him, but he still has a job to lose when rosters are cut and Naquin comes back.

So we know that the 2016 draft yielded 3/5 of our star rotation:

Round 4 Beiber
Round 3 Civale
Round 12: Plesac

But that draft has also been used to acquire lots of other talent some for short term some for long term:

Round 10 Samad Taylor [and Thomas Pannone] for Joe Smith
Round 30 Ryder Ryan for Jay Bruce
Round 5 Connor Capel [and higher ceiling prospect Jhon Torres] for Orlando Mercado

Potential future star or at least regular 3B Nolan Jones was Round 2 pick.


So even though 1st round pick Will Benson is making slow progress while struggling to hit 200; and 2nd round pick Logan Ice is a fine catching non hitting catcher, this stacks up as a Superior Draft class

Team Stats:

Offense:
avg .222 that ranks 21st
obp .317 ranks 17th
slg .323 ranks 26th
ops .640 ranks 26th
HR 6 ranks 20th
bb 29 ranks 8th
K 64 ranks 20th from lowest to higherst
k/bb 2.2 I don't see a ranking on that
sb 1 only 19 teams have more

pitching:
era 2.13 2nd [Dodgers are a bit lower]
HR 7 9th
K 94 1st
bb 14 3rd from the bottom
K/bb 6.71 no one comes close, was 11/1 before yesterday!
whip 0.90 1st
avg .198 3rd

OMG I am not crazy. Not only was this site down, but had my router go down.
We are back

Wherever this site disappeared to for a month, they took the Tribe's bats with them.

Mr. Smile is anything but smiling these days. He sure does not look like he is having fun, but has one foot out the door. I would not be surprised if when he gets traded the whole team will pick up the slack.

Betts may have got his contract !

Might be the reason for the lack of the "smile".

I would not be surprised if when he gets traded the whole team will pick up the slack.

I could equally imagine if he gets traded the rest of the team gives up the ghost

Move Lindor back to lead off. why mess with a good thing.

Top of the order isn't the problem but can't hurt to stir those 4 around.

The next 5 are disaster zone. 3 OFs, DH and C are hitting collectively not much of anything

Plezac and now Clevinger caught sneaking out of their hotel rooms while on the road. Why would anyone expect a bunch of 20 something millionaires

to stay in their rooms after games on the road.....because they said they would??? LoL.

I can see this season melting down fast.

What a surprise to find out Clevinger and Plesac have the same deficiency
as the Scarecrow from Oz.