Indians Trade Three To Get DeRosa

The Indians have completed a deal today to send right-hander Jeff Stevens, right-hander Chris Archer, and left-hander John Gaub to the Chicago Cubs for infielder Mark DeRosa. This is the third significant move in the offseason for the Indians, one in which earlier this month they signed closer Kerry Wood and traded outfielder Franklin Gutierrez for right-hander reliever Joe Smith and second baseman Luis Valbuena."The acquisition of Mark DeRosa gives our club an experienced,...

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Indians Acquire DeRosa, Trade Stevens, Archer, and Gaub

CLEVELAND, OH --- The Cleveland Indians today acquired INF MARK DeROSA from the Chicago Cubs in exchange for RHP JEFF STEVENS, RHP CHRIS ARCHER & LHP JOHN GAUB. ON-BASE % LEADERS2008 MLB 2ND BASEMEN1. Chase Utley (PHI) # .3802. Brian Roberts (BAL) .3783. MARK DeROSA (CHC) .3764. Dustin Pedroia (BOS) # .3765. Ian Kinsler (TEX) # .3756. Dan Uggla (FLA) # .360# 2008 All-Star* Among MLB players who appeared in at least 90 games at 2B DeRosa, 33, had a career season with the Chicago Cubs in 2008, recording...

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Indians Acquire Mark DeRosa, Trade Jeff Stevens

No official word on this at the moment, but the Indians have traded minor leaguers RHP Jeff Stevens, RHP Chris Archer, and LHP John Gaub to the Chicago Cubs for infielder Mark DeRosa. No word on who the other prospects are the Indians are giving up, but it sounds as if the deal is in fact centered around Steve...

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Final Winter League Round-up

With all regular seasons now over in the Caribbean Leagues, this is the final installment of the Winter League Round-ups until next off-season. With that in mind, thanks everyone for reading. Here are the final numbers, including all the final numbers from the Arizona Fall League and Hawaii Winter League.Caribbean Winter LeaguesThe regular seasons in Venezuela, Mexico and Puerto Rico all came to an end yesterday (12/30), so as a result all numbers are final for Indians farmhands.VENEZUELAN WINTER LEAGUE RHP Randy Newsom - 4G, 2.2IP, 7H, 7R/ER,...

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Book and Prospect Rankings Update #3

Okay, some more firm details on the upcoming prospect rankings and book.First off, it will be a Top 100 ranking with full scouting reports for players from #1 all the way to #100. Players in the Top 50 will get the same treatment as last year with a very detailed and in-depth writeup of about 4-6 good sized paragraphs, while guys from #51-100 will get about two paragraphs (similar in size to my "just missed" guys last year).I will be counting down from #100 to #1 over the course of the next two months, with the plan right now to start the countdown...

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Smoke Signals: Special Show Tonight

While the news of the day is the Browns cleaning house in the front office and with the head coach, Paul and I will be airing a special edition of Smoke Signals to makeup one of the shows lost to Christmas and New Years. Tonight, we will talk about the Brad Penny signing with Boston and how it maybe means that a lot of the free agent pitchers left on the market may settle be in line to settle for one year deals. We will go through the best options left in free agency and offer up our thoughts on if we will be able to land any of them.In addition...

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Q&A With Kevin Goldstein

Note: This is a question and answer session I conducted with Baseball Prospectus' Kevin Goldstein during Spring Training in 2007.If you want to talk baseball prospects, one of the top names around to talk with is Kevin Goldstein.Kevin is a highly acclaimed writer for Baseball Prospectus (BP) who focuses on baseball prospects and the draft with his "Future Shock" articles. Prior to joining Baseball Prospectus, Kevin wrote for Baseball America and ESPN from 2003-2006, and...

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Winter League Sunday Round-up

Caribbean Winter LeaguesPlayer Updates (overall numbers - Italics indicate players’ season is over): - VENEZUELAN WINTER LEAGUERHP Randy Newsom - 4G, 2.2IP, 7H, 7R/ER, 3BB, 1K, 23.62ERAOF Matt LaPorta - 17G, .164(11-for-67)/.250/.299/.549, 3 2B, 2HR, 12RBIINF Asdrubal Cabrera - 8G, .346(9-for-26)/.500/.538/1.038, 2 2B, HR, 6RBIINF Luis Valbuena - 46G, .299(40-for-134)/.359/.522/.882, 9 2B, 3 3B, 5HR, 20RBIRHP Edward Mujica - 18G, 17.2IP, 29H, 14R/ER, 2BB, 14K, 7.13ERAINF Nuiman Romero - 33G, .273(27-for-99)/.348/.283/.631, 2B, 8RBIINF Karexon...

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Weekend Update: 12/27

Here is a quick rundown of some of the news from a very slow news week in the Indians system:- Just a reminder, because of the Christmas holiday this past week we did not air our radio show and because of the New Year’s holiday this coming week the show will not air again. As mentioned previously, we will have a special show this coming Monday December 29th from 9:30-10:30pm EST to offset the loss of the two shows. Our featured guest this week will be left-handed pitcher Ryan Morris who pitched at Single-A Lake County last year (9-7, 3.76 ERA,...

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Farm Director Talks Prospects

Note: This conversation and article is from July 2007. Just another article written prior to the start of this blog that I wanted housed on this site for reference. Prospect countdowns starts in 9 days!At the Lake County Captains game last Friday, I had the chance to sit down during the game and talk to Indians Farm Director Ross Atkins at great length about a great number of players up and down the Indians farm system. Here is a recap of what he had to say about them:On...

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Merry Christmas!

To all the readers of the Indians Prospect Insider, I just wanted to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas. And for those that do not celebrate Christmas I wanted to wish you a Happy Holidays as well.This site is still growing, and it is amazing to think of where it was just a year ago and how much has changed. A lot more is going to change in 2009 as many new features and even more coverage of the Indians farm system is brought to the pages of this site. If you want news...

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Winter League Wednesday Round-up

Caribbean Winter LeaguesPlayer Updates (overall numbers - Italics indicate players’ season is over): - VENEZUELAN WINTER LEAGUE RHP Randy Newsom - 4G, 2.2IP, 7H, 7R/ER, 3BB, 1K, 23.62ERAOF Matt LaPorta - 17G, .164(11-for-67)/.250/.299/.549, 3 2B, 2HR, 12RBIINF Asdrubal Cabrera - 8G, .346(9-for-26)/.500/.538/1.038, 2 2B, HR, 6RBIINF Luis Valbuena - 46G, .299(40-for-134)/.359/.522/.882, 9 2B, 3 3B, 5HR, 20RBIRHP Edward Mujica - 18G, 17.2IP, 29H, 14R/ER, 2BB, 14K, 7.13ERAINF Nuiman Romero - 32G, .277(26-for-94)/.355/.287/.642, 2B, 8RBIINF Karexon...

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Kinston Insider

* Note: This article originally was published in September 2007.Kinston, North Carolina.Having never been there, I had no idea what I was in store for when I visited there a few weeks back on the final weekend of August. After already visiting affiliates in large metropolitan areas in Akron and Buffalo, visiting Lake County which is a bustling area on the outskirts of major metropolis Cleveland, and Mahoning Valley which is located just outside of another major Ohio city...

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