Ryan Miller Promoted to Kinston

The Indians re-assigned left-hander Ryan Miller to advanced Single-A Kinston today and activated left-hander Anillins Martinez. Martinez is a bullpen guy, so another move should be coming down the pipeline soon to add a starter to the Lake County rotation and to remove a reliever. The two most likely choices to fill the open spot in the Lake County rotation are right-hander Danny Salazar or left-hander Chris Jones, both of which are in extended spring training.

With this move, obviously a pitcher has either been promoted or gotten hurt in Kinston, though no word of that at the moment.

Wild guess: right-hander Jeanmar Gomez will be moved up to Double-A Akron and then right-hander Frank Herrmann is moved up to Triple-A Columbus, and then one of Kirk Saarloos or Jack Cassel is released. All this happens in the next couple days due to a lot of moving pieces parts. Again, this is not what is happening and at this point is just my guess.

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