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DeMasi is starting for Columbus today, in place I guess of Ogando; he was in the bullpen in Akron.
Benson is indeed hitting below 200 but at least he has 5 homers and a ton of walks. Jones has fewer walks and homers and a batch of errors, disappointing.
Mitch Longo is back into the multi=hits every day mode he had last summer, but please Mitch lets drive some of those.

Plesac threw a 2 hit 9 inning shutout today on just 74 pitches.

This is pretty impressive ...

Indians Prospective @indiansPro

#Indians RHP prospect James Karinchak has amassed (42) strikeouts over his last 11 games dating back to last year.

20 (IP) w/ 42 (SO)

42 (SO) = 18.9 (SO/9)

Karinchak may be on the way to a quick rise as a hard=throwing reliever. Not soon enough based on our current needs.

I saw that box score on Plesac last night and did a double take: nine-inning shutout is very rare in the minors; but on 74 pitches!! Perhaps the opponents had an early bus to catch.

He took Crash Davis' advice. Only had 3 strikeouts. He was democratic and not fascist. LOL

Only 20+ of his pitches in the 9 inning CG were balls.

Love the fact the Indians organization is pushing the need to throw strikes. Just look at the Indians game yesterday. 4-0 lead blown because Clevinger walked 2 batters then Allen fell behind everybody he faced.

BA notes on Sunday games. They dont' seem to send reports on Friday and Saturday anymore

CLE AA Castro, Willi SS 4 1 1 0 .216 BB (9)
CLE AA Mathias, Mark 2B 2 1 2 1 .275 3B (3)
CLE AAA Chang, Yu 3B 1 0 0 0 .267 hit by pitch, removed for pinch runner
CLE AAA Haase, Eric PR-C 2 1 1 2 .268 HR (2) he was the pinch runner
CLE AAA Mejia, Francisco C-LF 1 2 0 0 .191 BB (6)
CLE HiA Capel, Conner CF 4 0 1 0 .297 2B (8), CS (5)
CLE HiA Ice, Logan C 3 1 1 0 .175
CLE LoA Benson, Will RF 4 0 1 1 .205
CLE LoA Clement, Ernie SS 4 0 1 0 .340 BB (12), CS (4)
CLE LoA Jones, Nolan 3B 3 1 2 0 .188 2B (4), BB (18)
CLE MAJ Allen, Greg CF 3 0 0 0 .000
CLE MAJ Gonzalez, Erik 1B 1 0 0 0 .375
CLE AA Krieger, Tyler is back out of the lineup and I suspect an injury

Haase rediscovers power stroke over weekend.

https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/993245205733216256

He's having such a better offensive season than Mejia, I want to know more about his defense. Mejia is rated an "80" arm on the 20-80 scale but needed some work on other receiving skills. Of course ,he's been spending a lot of his time in the outfield, while his offense has collapsed.

With McKenzie still in the desert, Bobby Bradley started to hit homers but remains under 200 in his Akron return, and Nolan Jones under 200 in Lake County, our top prospects are making zero headway this spring. Bieber was No 5 on the BA list preseason and is certainly the most effective of any of our players to date.

This one is for hillbilly:

https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories ... ballparks/

Sorry. No Hablo Ingles.



Oh c'mon Dennis, the writer of this opinion piece is obviously crazy. I mean, look at #7. He has First Energy Stadium listed in Reading, PA. Everybody knows First Energy Stadium is in Cleveland and is home to the Cleveland Browns minor league football team!

LOL, The offer still stands, come on down and I will take you to the best MILB stadium in the country! I will even buy you a hot dog!

BA Hot Prospect List is out and naturally Indians strike out again.

Today's starters:

Wilk; Chiang 1.29; Tully 4.23; McCarty 8.56.

Some other notes on Sunday games:

MITCH LONGO also was a hit by a pitch and left for a pinch runner.
Good hitters, poor baserunners: Ernie Clement CS 4th in 10 tries; Austen Wade CS 4th in 9 tries

Akron pitching: Sean Brady 6 3 1 0 1 4
Mitch Brown remains sharp, is he perhaps developing into a competent relief pitcher? 2 1/3 1 0 0 1 3 For the season:
12 1/3 5 1 1 3 14 0.68