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Brantley sits with severely upset stomach

By Jordan Bastian / MLB.com | 07/20/11 2:33 PM ET

MINNEAPOLIS -- The extremely hot and humid conditions have taken a toll on Michael Brantley's body. On Wednesday, the Indians outfielder remained sidelined with a severely upset stomach.

"Michael is in pretty bad shape," Indians manager Manny Acta said. "He's still not able to eat and process food properly. He's just not playable."

Acta indicated that Brantley's ailment was initially described as heat exhaustion, which developed after Monday's day-night doubleheader against the Twins. The outfielder has been receiving fluids intravenously, according to Acta.

Cleveland's manager also noted that a handful of his players were given fluids through IVs between and after Monday's games, and also following Tuesday night's loss. Acta hoped that the off-day on Thursday would help Brantley -- the Tribe's regular left fielder -- recover in time to play on Friday at home against the White Sox.

With Brantley sidelined, and Travis Buck also unavailable after being hit in the head with a pitch on Tuesday night, Acta gave utility man Luis Valbuena the nod in left field on Wednesday afternoon. The Indians are also without outfielders Shin-Soo Choo (broken left thumb) and Grady Sizemore (right knee injury).

The Indians lost Brantley in the midst of a hot stretch at the plate, too. Over his past 11 games, Brantley has hit .412 (21-for-51) with three doubles, six RBIs and nine runs scored. In his previous 23 contests, he hit at a .174 clip with a .503 OPS.

On the season, Brantley is hitting .281 with six homers, 17 doubles and 39 RBIs in 92 games for Cleveland.

"For the most part, he's been pretty consistent," Acta said. "Like any young hitter, at times he gets out of his comfort zone, chases some pitches and gets himself out. But he's had a very good road trip so far. He's been huge for us."

I'm on "too much tequila the other night." Or a Gardenhire plant. Gardenhire is insidious.



And he has had his pitchers throw at our guys for years.

I'm not a doctor, but stomach illnesses of natural occurrence seem historically odd to me in mid-July.

MtFan wrote:Didn't they leave a set of keys for the cleaning lady?

They did, but it turned out she had misplaced her green card.

She was last seen shouting, "Yankees Suck!!"

You just figuring that out Rocky?

Frank- There are many more things that I need to figure out than those I have deduced to my satisfaction.

Duncan can't return for 10 days unless there is an injury.

Thanks for that reminder, I forget that rule.

See Minor Matters: Jim Callis at Baseball America agrees that there's no reason to delay promoting Kipnis. I will note, however, that Jason has not been hitting well since his various all-star successes 10 days ago.

Gotta love the Indians and the way they lie about injuries. No idea what that gets them-Grady Sizemore had surgery yesterday for a sports hernai-out 4-6 weeks.

So Grady went from thinking he needed microfracture surgery on his knee to a hernia.

Odd for sure.

So Grady and Shin are both due in September. It will be like calling up farm hands.

My guess is Kipnis, Donald and Pheleps are all being discussed in trades depending on who we get back. Package one of them with a couple of stud relievers that we are loaded with and you should get back more than a 3 month rental.....

Most contending teams want to see anybody they're interested in, showcased in the Majors. I'm sure the Tribe would like to package Valbuena in a deal. Valbuena had a good year at AAA but as soon as he's back in the Majors he pulls a Marte.

So we are going after coco crisp and lugnuts. Pretty impressive. Why cant we just go after manny and joey and russsel the muscle

Relievers are in HUGE demand.

Lee's up to 14 1/3 scoreless (1 unearned run) innings in AAA with well over 1K/IP and 3 ground outs per air out.