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By James Pete Today’s an off day for the Cleveland Indians. It seems such a harmless sentence, but with the Cleveland Indians playing baseball far south of good, today’s off day might mean the beginning of a major shake-up for the Cleveland Indians team in general, and to, specifically, their bullpen. W...

By James Pete Joe Borowski blew his fourth save of the season, as the Cleveland Indians lost to the Chicago White Sox 3-2 in 10 innings in Chicago. The loss puts the Indians 11 1/2 behind the first-place White Sox, and may be the straw that breaks ...

 MA - And all the sudden, Tribe fans began to remember that the 2007 season was more than just a Cleveland Indians team one game away from the World Series. ...

 MA - Jun 30, 2008 Cleveland begins an eight-game stretch with the AL Central on Monday, when they play at the Chicago White Sox. This should decide the Indians course of ...

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By James Pete 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Cincinnati 1 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 5 8 0 CLEVELAND 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 W: Johnny Cueto (6-8), L: Paul Byrd (3-9) HR: Adam Dunn (19) The Cleveland Indians in general, and Ryan Garko in particular, wasted several scoring opportunities on Saturday night, as Cincinnati’s “little re ...

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By James Pete CC Sabathia, perhaps in his last month as a Cleveland Indian, continued his summer dominance with eight shutout innings, as the Cleveland Indians rolled over the Cincinnati Reds 6-0 on Friday night in Cleveland. ...

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By James Pete The Cleveland Indians’ offense spent the night making Barry Zito look like an $120 million dollar pitcher, as the San Francisco Giants beat the Cleveland Indians 4-1 at Progressive Field last night. The Indians loss, combined with the ...

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By James Pete The rumors are getting ready to fly, with the Cleveland Indians’ offense serving dud after dud. According to FOXSports.com’s Senior Baseball Writer Ken Rosenthal thinks that could be changing soon, as the Colorado Rockies may be ready to deal some of their biggest pieces.

By James Pete Paul Byrd had his best outing of his 2008 season, pitching 7 1/3 innings of shutout baseball, as the Cleveland Indians defeated the Oakland A’s 4-0 in Cleveland on Tuesday Night. Rafael Perez and Masa Kobayashi would complete the Indians’ shutout, which was the Tribe’s fourth in seven gam...

Game #4: Paul Byrd loses his wings in Indians loss to A’s - mlb-indians(mvn.com)

By James Pete Paul Byrd gave up three home runs in 6 2/3, and Masa Kobayashi gave up another in relief, as the New York Yankees avoided the sweep Thursday afternoon to defeat the Cleveland Indians 6-3 at Yankee Stadium. C.C. Sabathia is on the hill tomorrow night in Cleveland, as the Indians go up against Tor...

Game #32: David Dellucci 3-run jack gives Tribe win over Yankees - mlb-indians(mvn.com)

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By James Pete 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Toronto 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 7 0 CLEVELAND 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 X 6 9 0 W: C.C. Sabathia (2-5) L: Roy Halladay (3-5) Casey Blake hit a two-run double to spark a six-run Indians’ seventh inning, as the Cleveland Indians and C.C. Sabathia defeated the Toronto Blue Jays and Roy Halladay 6-1 in Cleveland F...

By James Pete “La Vega. Edward Salcedo, the new sensation Creole baseball, is just one step away from realize his dream. In passing a physical exam will receive a bonus of 2.9 million dollars by the Cleveland Indians. “I am proud because I know that will come very far. I want to see him in the Hall of Fame and brea...

By James Pete Pinch-hitter David Dellucci launched a two-out, three-run homer off of relief pitcher Joba Chamberlain in the eighth inning, as the Cleveland Indians defeated the New York Yankees 5-3 Tuesday Night at Yankee Stadium. Rafael Betancourt would close out the game in 1-2-3 fashion to give t...

Game #33: Cliff Lee leads the Indians to a 3-0 shutout of the New York Yankees - mlb-indians(mvn.com)

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By James Pete 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E CLEVELAND 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 3 7 0 NY Yankees 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 W: Cliff Lee (6-0) L: Chien-Ming Wang (6-1) S: Rafael Betancourt (4) Cliff Lee dominated the New York Yankees, pitching seven innings of shut-out ball, as the Cleveland Indians defeated the New York Yankees, 3-0. Cliff Lee c...

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By James Pete The Cleveland Indians will designate left fielder Jason Michaels for assignment before tomorrow night’s game against the New York Yankees. Outfielder Ben Francisco will be recalled from Buffalo to take his place. The Indians will have 10 days to either trade Michaels, outright release...

By James Pete Jhonny Peralta and Franklin Gutierrez hit back-to-back fifth inning home runs off of Yankee starter Andy Pettitte, as the Cleveland Indians would go on to beat the Yankees 6-4 on Friday night. It was the Tribe’s first meeting against the Yankees since last year’s American League divisio...

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By James Pete The Cleveland Indians’ offense scored often and early, which is exactly what a struggling Fausto Carmona needed to get his third win of the season.  Grady Sizemore led the Indians with a four-hit game, going 4-5, with a solo shot, scoring a run, and driving in two.  He wasn’t the only hot st...

By James Pete 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E CLEVELAND 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 5 0 Kansas City 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 W: Cliff Lee (4-0) L: Brian Bannister (3-2) HR: CLE–David Dellucci (3) Cliff Lee is having some kind of month. The Tribe lefty went from competing with fellow lefty’s Aaron Laffey and Jeremy Sowers for the #5 slot, to being th...

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By James Pete When Yogi Berra coined the phrase, “It’s deja vu’ all over again,” he may have been talking about the conclusion of anything involving the Cleveland Indians, and the Boston Red Sox. Unfortunately for the Indians, the Deja Vu involves the Indians leading something, and the Red Sox coming b...

By James Pete The Indians had many opportunities to score after Carmona left the game. The offense, unfortunately, couldn’t capitalize on any opportunity presenting itself. The Indians were 0-8 with runners in scoring position. You don’t win many games that way.

By James Pete The L.A. Angels teed off on Paul Byrd and the Cleveland Indians this afternoon at Angel Stadium in Anaheim. Byrd gave up a 2nd inning grand slam to Angels’ catcher Mike Napoli, then two solo shots to Garret Anderson and Casey Kotchman in the third inning for his 2nd straight poor start in the Ind...

By James Pete 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E CLEVELAND 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1   3 7 1 Oakland 0 1 0 0 4 0 1 0 X   6 10 0 W-J. Duchscherer (1-0) L-P. Byrd (0-1) Paul Byrd won 15 games last season, and really was a model of consistency for the bottom end of the Tribe rotation. He wasn’t spectacular, throwing blazing heat by you. He doesn’t really ha...

Game #39: Paul Byrd continues brilliant run by Indians’ starters - mlb-indians(mvn.com)

By James Pete The New York Yankees. It’s really a sentence unto itself. When the ‘Yankees’ are mentioned in Cleveland, there’s almost a universal look given by all Indians’ fans that resembles what it must look like when one is stabbed in the gut. There isn’t a team more hated in the Forest City than [...]

By James Pete Westbrook gave up the tie to Joe Crede in the top of the 8th, with a solo shot into the bleachers. He wouldn’t make it out of the inning, after two more one-out singles put runners on first and second. Cleveland would fail to get even another runner on base over the next two innings, to give the Whi...

By James Pete Kelly Shoppach and Jhonny Peralta led off the inning with singles. After two outs, Franklin Gutierrez walked, loading the bases for Blake. He promptly ripped a 1-2 pitch off the wall in left for a double to score three runs, and give the Indians a 10-7 lead, which would ultimately turn in to a 1...

By James Pete In 2007, the Cleveland Indians and Boston Red Sox played an epic ALCS. If you are an Indians fan, it was much more epic for the Red Sox, who came back from a 3-1 series deficit to beat the Tribe 4-3. It wasn’t by accident. The Red Sox were and are a [...]

By James Pete Mastny was stellar against the Boston Red Sox, and you couldn’t say that about many Tribe pitchers. He pitched 4.2 innings, giving up only 2 hits and 2 walks, and no earned runs during his three outings. In one series, Mastny had worked his way back into the Tribe’s bullpen plans.

By James Pete Here’s a look at some Indians who are making a splash this spring training: Jensen Lewis: He’s going to be rolling with Kobayashi in the 6th and 7th inning, and his sub-2 ERA gives the Tribe thoughts of a potential closer-in-waiting. This could be the guy that brings back the closer mentalit...

By James Pete Andy Marte appeared to have a lock on the spot at the beginning of camp based simply on not having any more minor league options left. Cleveland can’t send him down to AAA Buffalo without having to clear him through waivers. He most assuredly won’t clear waivers. Most in the Cleveland organiza...

By James The Cleveland Indians didn’t do a thing this offseason. There aren’t many out there that are pointing to Jamey Carroll and Masa Kobayashi and thinking dynasty. Still, there’s reason to believe that the Indians just may be the team to beat in 2008. Here’s ‘The Deep Six’ on why the Indians shoul...

By James So to those blustering about how overrated the Tribe starters were last season, basing it squarely on the ALCS, feel free to continue that thinking. Hopefully, opposing managers will do the same thing. Francisco went 1 for 3, with 2 RBI. He’s batting .421 this spring. This kid needs to make the c...

By James The talk of the Sunday papers today was Cleveland Indians’ DH Travis Hafner.   We here at Tribe Report are just going to cut to the chase.  Hafner slumped last season, we all get that, and there’s no need to rehash his below average for Hafner numbers.  What’s important to note is what he’s do...

By James Johan Santana’s contract isn’t really worth 23 million a year, as originally speculated, but at a paltry 20 million a year.  Some are trying to spin that as a positive for the Cleveland Indians’ chances on signing the burly Indians’ ace.  Okay, now listen closely.  Cleveland won’t, and shou...

By James A year ago, Ryan Garko was hoping to make the Indians’ roster on opening day.  The Tribe lineup appeared full, and Garko appeared the odd man out after exploding on the scene in 2006, with a .292 average, 7 dingers and 45 RBI in only 50 games.  There were several platoons planned, and it didn’t...

By James The biggest question coming out of Winter Haven is who’s going to be the Cleveland Indians’ fifth starter.  With the top four spots in the rotation cemented in with C.C. Sabathia, Fausto Carmona, Jake Westbrook and Paul Byrd, there will be potentially four starters fighting for the fifth...

By James The Cleveland Indians slaughtered the Houston Astros today in the inaugural game of this year’s spring training.  The stat line reads like a who’s who of, well, who?  Sure, there were names for the future, like Trevor Crowe, who went 2 for 3 with a run and 3 RBI.   There was catcher, Wyatt Tor...

By James Today marked the debut for the Indians one splash into the free agent market, when Masa Kobayashi strolled out to the mound in the sixth inning today in Kissimmee.  The first two batters that he faced both singled off the right hander from Japan.  The third got on base on a fielder’s choice tha...

By James The Cleveland Indians and the Detroit Tigers embark on the first of many games that should showcase two of the top teams in Major League baseball.  The spring games don’t count in the won-loss column come September, but it’s hard to believe that any game these two teams play won’t have a b...

By Dennis Much has been said recently about the rumors of St. Louis Cardinals third baseman Scott Rolen heading to Clevelandin a Cliff Lee and Jhonny Peralta trade.  Some baseball analysts think that the move would make sense to the Indians - it would give them a veteran third baseman who has proven hi...

By James So, enough of the comparisons to Danny Ferry. The Cavs made the finals last year, which in theory, is a step further than the Indians. The catch? The NBA East rates somewhere along the lines of the NCAA’s Big East. Nobody is going to confuse the American League with the Eastern Conference. Cleve...

By James Cleveland Indians’ fans have been anxiously awaiting a deal this offseason, that could boost the Tribe from also-rans to the Red Sox, to World Series champions.  To be fair, Shapiro had been in discussions for Dan Haren, Jason Bay and Miguel Cabrera.  All three deals fell apart for various...

By James The Cleveland Indians have become a model organization in building and re-building a minor league system.  Some fans would say to a fault, as Mark Shapiro has seemed to be the antithesis of his mentor, John Hart, in dealing away those prospects.  As Tribe Report has dealt with the numerous t...

By James In 2002, the Cleveland Indians traded Ryan Drese and Einar Diaz to the Texas Rangers for a former 31st round pick, Travis Hafner and some guy named Aaron Myette. The Indians were hoping to add players that might take the place of former slugger Jim Thome at 1b/DH. Earlier that year, Cleveland...

By James I must admit that every time I’ve heard Mark Prior’s name this offseason, in connection to teams seeking out his services, I’ve expected to hear the Cleveland Indians mentioned.  He seems to be the perfect Tribe, free-agent signing.  Why?

By James The Cleveland Indians and Colorado Rockies completed a trade today in which they’ll receive utility infielder Jamey Carroll for the infamous player to be named later.  Dan O’Dowd, the current Rockies GM was the former Director of Baseball Operations and Assistant General Manager for...

By James I don’t see Cleveland making any deal that includes Cabrera, unless they are getting more than Haren back.  I can’t really see the A’s taking a deal, even IF the Indians were to offer up Barfield, Miller, Laffey and Francisco.  To me, it doesn’t seem like much of a price to pay.  That’s a pretty g...

By James In return, the Indians would receive a legitimate ace in Dan Haren.  Just click the link and look at how good he’s been.  It gives the Indians the best rotation in the AL, perhaps next to Boston.  Maybe better at the top end.  It gives the Tribe protection if they don’t sign C.C.  It makes the Indians...

By James Joe Borowski is the Cleveland Indians’ closer, and I’m not sure that’s a good thing.  As good as the Cleveland Indians’ bullpen was last season, Joe Borowski was more or less an enigma.  You know the good, that Joe Borowski had a career high and AL leading 45 saves.  You know that bad, that Joe B...