2012 Depth Chart

This is updated look at the Cleveland Indians organization from Cleveland down to Low-A Lake County. This listing is my own view and the Cleveland Indians in no way assisted in putting it together. That said, I do feel I have a good understanding of where a lot of players will be placed so this is a good snapshot of how I think things look at the moment.

As moves are made this offseason I will continue to update this listing. So while Matt LaPorta may be listed as the starting first baseman in Cleveland, this will likely change as we get deeper into the offseason.

The players listed at the bottom are question marks as they do not appear to have a spot in the organization and may be on the bubble. The one exception are the extra players listed under Low-A Lake County as most of these players will be assigned to extended spring training and then play for one of the short season affiliates later in the year at Single-A Mahoning Valley or rookie level Arizona or even Low-A Lake County later in the season.

The players with a (+) are what I think will be piggyback situations. With several pitchers expected to start and have their workload monitored this gives an opportunity for the Indians to essentially have six starters at a given level. Danny Salazar and Alexander Perez are expected back next season as starters but will likely have to piggyback with someone, and Dillon Howard is not going to go out and throw 150 innings his first pro season so he may piggyback with someone like Jake Sisco, which would be a good way to break both in at Lake County.

Players listed under the "DH" does not mean they will be the full time DH, it just means they will be in the everyday lineup but have to split time at a few positions, something of which is hard to illustrate in a depth chart.

As you get deeper and deeper into the system, particularly at the Single-A level in Carolina and Lake County it becomes harder and harder to determine who goes where, especially with the pitchers. So if a player is not listed on a roster now it does not mean in a month or two I won't put them on a roster. In the end it only matters what the Indians officially unveil at the end of March as between now and then injuries, trades, etc will occur which will change the makeup of this depth chart considerably.

This depth chart will be linked in the tabs above right below the header, so check back often as this chart will continue to be updated all offseason as moves are made or I gather more information.

One last note....the (*) means the pitcher is left-handed.

Last updated: February 10, 2012

	Cleveland	Columbus	Akron	Carolina	Lake County
Lineup
C	Carlos Santana	Luke Carlin	Roberto Perez	Jake Lowery	Alex Lavisky
1B	Casey Kotchman	Matt LaPorta	Adam Abraham	Jesus Aguilar	Charlie Valerio
2B	Jason Kipnis	Cord Phelps	Tyler Cannon	Zach MacPhee	Tony Wolters
SS	A. Cabrera	Juan Diaz	Casey Frawley	Ronny Rodriguez	Francisco Lindor
3B	Jack Hannahan	Lonnie Chisenhall	Kyle Bellows	Jordan Smith	Giovanny Urshela
LF	Michael Brantley	Tim Fedroff	Tyler Holt	Delvi Cid	LeVon Washington
CF	Grady Sizemore	Ezequiel Carrera	Jordan Henry	Bryson Myles	Luigi Rodriguez
RF	Shin-Soo Choo	Thomas Neal	Nick Weglarz	Carlos Moncrief	Cody Elliott
DH	Travis Hafner	Beau Mills	Chun Chen	Anthony Gallas	Robel Garcia
Bench
C	Lou Marson	Matt Pagnozzi	Michael Hernandez	Alex Monsalve	Moises Montero
INF		Argenis Reyes	Karexon Sanchez	Todd Hankins	Nick Bartolone
INF	Jason Donald	Jared Goedert	Jeremie Tice	Argenis Martinez	Evan Frazar
INF
OF	Shelley Duncan	Trevor Crowe	Ben Copeland	Jordan Casas	John Barr
OF	A. Cunningham	Russ Canzler
OF
Rotation
SP	Justin Masterson	Jeanmar Gomez	T.J. McFarland*	Giovanni Soto*	Felix Sterling
SP	Ubaldo Jimenez	David Huff*	Matt Packer*	Kyle Blair	Elvis Araujo
SP	Josh Tomlin	Zach McAllister	Austin Adams	Mike Rayl*	Shawn Armstrong
SP	Derek Lowe	Scott Barnes*	Clayton Cook	M. Goodnight	Will Roberts
SP	Kevin Slowey	Corey Kluber	Steven Wright+	Alexander Perez+	Dillon Howard+
Bullpen
MR	Frank Herrmann	Tyler Sturdevant	T.J. House+	Danny Salazar+	Jake Sisco+
MR	Nick Hagadone*	Hector Ambriz	Rob Bryson	Trey Haley	Kyle Petter*
MR	Tony Sipp*	Paolo Espino	Eric Berger*	Brett Brach	Grant Sides
MR	Rafael Perez*	K. De La Cruz*	Matt Langwell	Jordan Cooper	Tony Dischler
MR	Joe Smith	Bryce Stowell	Toru Murata	F. Jimenez*	Danny Jimenez*
MR	Vinnie Pestano	Bryan Price	Kyle Landis	Cole Cook	Joseph Colon
MR
CL	Chris Perez	C.C. Lee	Preston Guilmet	Cody Allen	Enosil Tejeda
Disabled List
DL	Carlos Carrasco	Hector Rondon	Bo Greenwell	Jason Knapp
DL	Fausto Carmona
DL
DL
Extras or free agent
	Jose Lopez	Chin-Lung Hu	Doug Pickens	Aaron Fields	Aaron Siliga
	Felix Pie	Willy Lebron		A. Hubbard	Jeff Johnson
	Andy LaRoche	Gregorio Petit		Brian Heere	Andrew Campbell
	Robinson Tejeda	Jose De La Torre		Clayton Ehlert	Leonardo Castillo
	Chris Seddon*	Ryan Rohlinger		Dale Dickerson	Luis Encarnacion
	Chris Ray	Chad Huffman		Chase Burnette	Chia-Ching Lin
	Jeremy Accardo			Dwight Childs	Drew Ruckinski
	Fred Lewis			J. Reichenbach*	Eric Haase
				Joey Mahalic	Erik Gonzalez
				Nick Sarianides	Francisco Valera
				Justin Toole	Cody Anderson
					Harold Guerrero*
					Henry Dunn
					Hunter Jones
					Jack Wagoner*
					Jairo Kelly
					Jerrud Sabourin
					Jorge Martinez
					Brian Ruiz
					Jose Lopez
					Jose Ramirez
					Josh McKeon
					Juan Romero
					KC Serna
					Kevin Fontanez
					Kirk Wetmore*
					Luis DeJesus
					Luis Lugo*
					Luis Morel
					Manuel Carmona
					Marcus Bradley
					Mark Brown
					Martin Cervenka
					Mason Radeke
					Matt Curtis
					Mitch Nilsson
					Moisses Ramirez
					Nathan Striz
					Owen Dew
					Patrick Tolentino
					Rafael Homblert
					Ramon Cespedes
					Rob Nixon
					Robbie Aviles*
					Ryan Battaglia
					Ryan Merritt*
					Shawn Morimando*
					Will Krasne
					Xavier de los Santos

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