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Nelson should move on to Lynchburg.

Mejia was hitless yesterday ending a 10 game hit streak, during which he hit 14 for 38, three doubles, a triple, a homer, four walks. His line was:
368/429/579. So despite his overall less than stellar stats, he could be ready for a return to Cleveland to spell Roberto.

Totally agree with you about Nelson.

Me personally, I would bring Mejia up and not look back. Perez is hitting .130, and he has not been the stud defender he was in years past. Matter of fact, he has had a hard time just transferring the ball to throw this year. So weird. But his defense is no longer good enough to warrant putting up with his weak hitting. Bring Mejia up and leave him there.

But it doesn't look like they will ...

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Indians Prospective @indiansPro
11 hours ago

Source: If #Indians (C) Roberto Perez has to be placed on the Disabled List (wrist) catching prospect Eric Haase will be promoted and not top prospect Francisco Mejia.

BA on Sunday games:

CLE AA Bradley, Bobby 1B 4 0 0 0 .193 BB (30)
CLE AA Castro, Willi SS 4 0 0 0 .250
CLE AA Krieger, Tyler LF 4 2 2 0 .209 2B (8)
CLE AA Mathias, Mark 2B 4 1 1 0 .241 2B (9), BB (26)
CLE AAA Chang, Yu 3B 3 0 0 0 .272
CLE AAA Mejia, Francisco C 2 0 0 0 .214
CLE LoA Benson, Will RF 3 0 1 0 .205 BB (40)
CLE LoA Clement, Ernie SS 5 0 2 2 .273 SB (8), CS (5)
CLE LoA Gonzalez, Oscar CF 5 0 2 0 .271
CLE LoA Jones, Nolan 3B 5 2 1 0 .238
CLE MAJ Allen, Greg CF 5 0 1 0 .241 SB (4)
CLE MAJ Gonzalez, Erik 2B 4 0 2 3 .360 2 2B (6)
No top pitchers in action.

Andrew Calica named Eastern League Player of the week.

Hentges, Capel, and Siri named to Carolina League all star team. They will go there along with Hillcats coaching staff.

Sometimes it doesn't take much to make an all-star team. Hentges has been in a slump since April, 18 runs in 29 1/3 innings.
Siri's only pitched 19 2/3 innings and on the down side walked 12 but on the excellent fanned 28,
Capel is currently on the DL but still has nice line: 294/381/433, although he's back into his terrible basestealing mode: caught in 8 of 17 attempts, including all of his 5 tries since the end of April.

Longo's line is not quite as good: 296/344/409
Karinchak ERA is 0 in Lynchburg with 21 K in 12 innings, but that's not a lot of time at this level yet.
Similarly Morgan's stats are better than Hentges but has only been there for a few weeks.

Columbus Clippers @CLBClippers
13 minutes ago

ROSTER MOVES:

- C/OF Francisco Mejia - recalled by Cleveland
- RHP Matt Belisle - given unconditional release
+ LHP Robert Zarate - from the 7 day DL
+ C Daniel Salters - transferred from Akron

Clippers 7 Bats 4

Chiang 5.1 IP, 5 H, 4 ER, 1 BB, 3 K
Yandy 0-2 , 3 BB
Chang 2-5 , 2B

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Akron off day

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Keys 1 Hillcats 0 (solo walk off homer bottom of 10th)

Hentges 6.2 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 3 BB, 6 K
Longo 1-4

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Loons 7 Captains 6

Jones 2-5
Benson 2-4 , 2B, 3 RBI, BB

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DSL Rangers 13 DSL Tribe 0

S.Rodriguez 1-4
Idrogo 2-4

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DSL Cubs 14 Tribe/Brewers 2

Starting pitcher gave up 10 runs in 3 innings. No highlights...

Good game for Hentges. We can use a lefty or two in our pitching depth.

Yes, was happy to see that cause if memory serves he was smacked around a bit lately. Let’s get him back on track.

Indians Prospective @indiansPro

DSL #Indians 19yr old RHP Jose Oca has been brilliant over his first 3 outings:
- 9.2(IP) 4H 0R 0ER 0BB 13SO 0.00 ERA
- Oca was signed by organization September 29th 2015 out of Venezuela

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Mahoning Valley Scrappers transactions
RHP Cameron Mingo promoted to Lake County
LHP Matt Whitehouse promoted to Akron
RHP Riley Echols assigned from Lake County

Lake County Captains transaction
(C) Josh Rolette activated from 7-day DL
RHP Riley Echols assigned to Mahoning Valley
RHP Cameron Mingo promoted from Mahoning Valley
(C) Mike Rivera placed on the 7-day DL

Lynchburg Hillcats transactions
(C) Logan Ice promoted to Akron
(C) Angel Lopez promoted from Arizona Rookie League

Akron RubberDucks transactions
(C) Logan Ice promoted from Lynchburg
(C) Daniel Salters promoted to Columbus

Columbus Clippers transactions
(C) Francisco Mejia optioned from Cleveland
RHP Adam Plutko promoted to Cleveland

Indians minor league players released
RHP Ryan Colegate
RHP Justin Garcia
RHP Alejandro Izaguirre
RHP Randy Marte

McKenzie and Bieber both pitching tonight!

And Plutko...

Columbus 6 Louisville 2

Bieber 7.1 IP, 5 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 5 K
Yandy 1-3 2B BB R
Naquin 1-4 2B R
Chang 1-4 2B R

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Fisher Cats 6 Ducks 1

McKenzie 4.1 IP 2 H 3 ER 1 BB 5 K
Lovegrove 1 IP 1 H 0 R 1 BB 1 K
Brown 1 IP 1 H 0 R 1 BB 2 K
Castro 0-3

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Keys 8 Hillcats 1

Longo 0-3
Persinger 1-3

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Captains 6 Lunuts 5 on another Todd Isaacs walk off hit.

Friis 1-5 RBI
Jones 3-5 2B
Oscar and Benson 0-9

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DSL Indians 8 Indians/Brewers 6

Oca 2.2(IP) 1H 0R 0ER 0BB 4SO
Paz 2-4 2R HR RBI
Noel 1-4 R HR RBI
Made 2-2 2R 2RBI SB

DSL #Indians 19yr old RHP Jose Oca has been brilliant over his first 3 outings:
- 9.2(IP) 4H 0R 0ER 0BB 13SO 0.00 ERA
- Oca was signed by organization September 29th 2015 out of Venezuela

Lynchburg played another game and lost that one, too. For some reason the MILB.com app that I use routinely tells me "no games scheduled" for the International League and sometimes AA too. So I have to wait for morning for Columbus and Akron updates.

Based on yesterday's outings, Bieber may soon be back to Cleveland as the 5th starter. I think that's the inevitable result; Plutko has had a nice season but Bieber's prospective ceiling is far better.

In that other Lynchburg game, the offense was zilch, except for another single for reliable Longo.
Tully with his best start in awhile, 6 innings, 2 runs on six hits, 3 walks and 7 strikeouts.

Nolan Jones' average up to a season high at 253. Benson at least drew another walk, he's good at that.

Some bullpen candidates in action:

In Akron:
Mitch Brown 1 1 0 0 1 2
Lovegrove 1 1 0 0 1 1

Columbus:
Luke Eubank 1 2/3 0 0 0 0 1 1.29
in AAA he's a composite 14 8 4 2 2 10; and while in Akron he fanned 26 in 16 innings.