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I dunno about that. He's a righty that plays CF. He can compete with Almonte for a platoon spot with Naquin.

I agree. Jackson is a very good defensive outfielder, right handed batter, speed and pop. If healthy he replaces Davis.

Indians pick up Richie Shaffer, 1b/3b, from Reds.

Designate Jesus Aguilar for assignment.

Told you guys to forget about Aguilar.

1959 Indians
How many can you identify? I bet CIV and JOE can name most of them!

Tony Lastoria ‏@TonyIBI 29 minutes ago
Shaffer is an interesting pickup. He's someone the Indians really liked coming out of the draft. More versatile than Aguilar & has options.

(former 1st round pick)

I've been doing a search on a player leading off a ballgame with a homer and ending the same game with an extra inning walk off homer.

Ronnie Rodriguez did just that last night. Two solo homers, a walk, all three runs scored in a 3-2, 10 inning victory.

His Eagles were down 4-2 in the best of 9 series. This win kept his team in the series with two games left to play (9th game if necessary)

To my knowledge, no one's ever done that in baseball history ?!?!?!

Well, in that photo only a few are really familiar. But here's my best effort:

1st row left looks maybe like Billy Moran, although not sure he was there in 59. 4th from left I guess must be pitching coach Mel Harder

2nd row 3rd from left is Terry's dad Tito. 3 more to the right is familiar, maybe Cal McLish?

3rd row: at extreme left is that Minnie Minoso? #7 from left I believe is Mike Garcia. The skinny kid to his right is probably Gaylord's brother Jim Perry. Then the easiest of the group: Rocky Colavito and I guess that's his pal Herb Score to his right?

if I try hard, perhaps I can pick out Gary Bell and Jim Grant? There's someone who'd I guess is Barry Latman, but we traded Herb for him so they can't be on the same team.

Woody Held? Bubba Phillips? Russ Nixon? Dick Brown? They must be in there somewhere. Probably the fuzzy guys on the right side of the photo.

2nd row, extreme left is likely "Mudcat" Grant, since there were still few non-whites on the team. 3rd from right in that row could be Roger Maris, is so that explains why no Woody Held or Vic Power since he was traded for them sometime midseason, or maybe that trade was in 58?

No probably not Maris. The only two I'm really sure of are Francona and Colavito, the two best hitters on the team.
Wait, I should be able to identify Don Mossi, if he was still around, famous for his big ears.

RONNY'S WALKOFF HOMER

https://youtu.be/mJ6dpD75eDo

These players just don't see this kind of pressure in the minor leagues.

The game details are posted in the winter folder.

watch out Joe: after dumping Aguilar, Ronny may be next to go?

I'm sad to see Aguilar leave, Civ. I thought he might have added to our bench strength, a guy with legitimate power attributes which our bench sorely lacks.

Not only that, but Aguilar was working on a new approach this winter......Patience! And it showed in all areas of his offensive game.

His power numbers this winter wasn't great, only 10 homers, but that was ok! His patience was paying off. His strike outs to walks ratio was excellent for him 1:1.

Aguilar's patience also was apparent when His batting average rose (.314) and he made better contact putting more balls into play. in 140 at bats, only struck out 27 times while walking 27 times during the regular season phase.

During the playoffs, Aguilar hit (.345), 7 games, 29 at bats, 10 hits, 4 walks, and 5 strike outs.

I hope they took into account these numbers before they released him.

Personally! I would have hung on to Aguilar through spring training.

I'm sure someone can look this up. Aguilar was just DFA. Does he have to accept minor league assignment or is he a FA and can sign a minor league contract with the Tribe or any other team?

Article I read said the Indians feel there is a good chance nobody picks Aguilar up and they can get him back.

Edit:

Actually it wasn't an article, it was just a tweet by Tony Lastoria. He believes a non contender might pick Aguilar up as a stop gap option but there is a good chance he clears and can come back.

Another edit:

I don't know why anybody would care.