Was watching the O's and one of the reasons Cruz chose Baltimore was the ballpark. He is on a one year deal, to put up numbers. Camden over Progressive every day of the week for that.

The Indians were never interested in Cruz.

1. They lose their #1 pick in the draft.
2. Too cheap to pay out the $8mil guaranteed.
3. PED Issue.

No teams were ever linked to Cruz. Baltimore made the only serious offer and Cruz jumped at the opportunity. Cruz said he was willing to sit out the first half of the season until teams needing players for a second half stretch run came along.

As has been the case with most if not all of the Cuban players, they followed the money.

Whine some more as usual..........

Swept again, this time by a division rival

Going to be a long season!

Just too many things need fixin' !

Tribe Sweeps the Rockies. Bourn with walk off homer. Tomlin with a quality start. Shaw gave away the lead. Asdrubal played well afield.

.........................................SWEEP!!!

Masterson with another sloppy pitch wasting start. He's held the Red Sox scoreless for 2 innings while throwing 49 pitches and walking and striking out 3 apiece. Maybe he was not so darned smart to reject the Indians contract offer. Anyone who looks at him this off season will know that he only pitches well in odd numbered years so can be certain he'll be an All Star in 2015 and in 2017. A contract offer of 3 years would be smart; only have to worry about one terrible year while under contract. Masterson will of course want 4 years and some team will overpay dramatically and give it to him.

Tribe up 2-0 on a 2 out 2 run single by Chisenhall, who else? in the first.

Unfortunately we are going to have to depend on Carrasco and Lowe and Axford to get us through the many relief innings Masterson will leave us needing tonight. The main participants in our closer committee will have to sit out tonight after working hard over the weekend.

Another rotten scoreless inning in the 3rd: strikeout, single, walk, Double Play. Only 13 pitches. So we should get 5 out of him unless the Sox manage one of those big innings Justin sometimes is suspectible to.

Red hot Michael Bourn leads off the Tribe third with a triple. The always reliable Asdrubal drives him in. Tribe now 2-3 with RISP, Sox 0=3. [BTW, the game opened with Bourn drawing a walk and stealing second. He's currently exactly the player we thought we signed.]

Of course I come in from mowing my lawn to see Shaw blew the the shutout.

What is it about a 100 pitch count anyway? Japanese pitchers go 120+ pitches often enough. I'd like to see some of these managers pull Bob Gibson out of a ballgame working on a shutout with just over a 100 pitch count. He may never manage again