2009 Lake County Captains Transactions

Here are the final transactions for Single-A Lake County in 2009: 04/07/2009 Doug Pickens assigned to Lake County Captains from Akron Aeros. 04/08/2009 Mike Pontius roster status changed by Lake County Captains. 04/17/2009 Anillins Martinez assigned to Lake County Captains from Cleveland Indians. 04/17/2009 Ryan Miller assigned to Kinston Indians from Lake County Captains. 04/23/2009 Mike Pontius assigned to Kinston Indians from Lake County Captains. 04/25/2009 Paolo Espino assigned to Akron Aeros from Lake County Captains. 04/28/2009 Russell...

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2009 Video Recap: Spring Training

As we close the book on 2009 and open another with the start of 2010, there will be lots of new video, pictures, stories, and news to share on the minor leaguers in the Indians system.  Today the focus is on where it all started in 2009 and where it will also begin in 2010: spring training.  These videos are from about nine months ago (which feels like nine years ago), but it was a starting point to another very good season in player development for the Indians. As...

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2009 Kinston Indians Transactions

Here are the final transactions for advanced Single-A Kinston in 2009: 04/17/2009 Ryan Miller assigned to Kinston Indians from Lake County Captains. 04/19/2009 Kelvin De La Cruz assigned to Mahoning Valley Scrappers from Kinston Indians. 04/23/2009 Mike Pontius assigned to Kinston Indians from Lake County Captains. 04/23/2009 Josh Judy assigned to Akron Aeros from Kinston Indians. 04/28/2009 Russell Young assigned to Kinston Indians from Lake County Captains. 04/29/2009 Jeanmar Gomez assigned to Akron Aeros from Kinston Indians. 05/01/2009 Kinston...

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2009 Video Recap: Mahoning Valley

My season ending video recap series continues today, this time with a look at some video shot over the course of the 2009 season at short-season Single-A Mahoning Valley.  The roster was made up mostly of new faces from the 2009 Draft, so this was the first look at a lot of the new players in the organization.  Over the past few weeks I have also posted year end recaps for Lake County, Kinston, Akron, Columbus and Instructional League, and later this...

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Winter Ball Stats: 12/27 Final Update

The winter leagues have wrapped up and now are either in their playoffs or have just completed them.  With that, this is the final winter stats update of the offseason. In all, there were some very good performances from Jordan Brown (.328, 4 HR, 21 RBI, .936 OPS), Matt McBride (.378, 4 HR, 18 RBI, 1.160 OPS) and Roman Pena (.332, 6 HR, 34 RBI, .950 OPS) as well as some encouraging performances from Fausto Carmona (2.70 ERA, 3 G, 13.1 IP, 0 BB), Rafael Perez (0.33 ERA, 6 G, 27.0 IP, 10 BB, 25 K), and Jake Westbrook (3.65 ERA, 4 G, 12.1...

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2009 Akron Aeros Transactions

Here are the final transactions for Double-A Akron in 2009: 03/19/2009 Transaction Akron Carlos Santana Cleveland Indians optioned catcher Carlos Santana to Double-A Akron. 03/19/2009 Transaction Akron Hector Rondon Cleveland Indians optioned RHP Hector Rondon to Double-A Akron. 04/06/2009 Akron Aeros placed RHP Carlton Smith on the 7-Day disabled list retroactive to November 1, 2008 04/07/2009 Doug Pickens assigned to Lake County Captains from Akron Aeros. 04/08/2009 Akron Aeros signed 2B Niuman Romero. 04/12/2009 Ryan Edell assigned to Columbus...

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Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!

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. Things have been changing rapidly on this site since its inception over two years ago, and a lot more change and new stuff is in store for 2010.  A new prospect book and site prospect countdown is coming, and lots more stories and news to share in the upcoming year. ...

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2009 Video Recap: Lake County

Today we continue with our year end video recap series, this time taking a look at some of the shots taken over the course of the 2009 season at Low-A Lake County.  Over the past few weeks I have posted the year end recaps for Kinston, Akron, Columbus and Instructional League, and in the final few days before the new year I will be providing video recaps for Mahoning Valley and 2009 Spring Training as well. (note, videos may take a minute or two to load on this...

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2009 Columbus Clippers Transactions

Over the next week the content will be centered more in wrapping up the 2009 season before the start of the new year, especially since my 2010 Top 50 Prospect countdown is coming in January (more on that later, and yes there will be a new book, and yes there will be over 150 prospects profiled). Today is the first "transactions" list finalizing all the moves at all the affiliates in 2009, with Triple-A Columbus kicking things off: 03/15/2009 Cleveland Indians optioned LHP Rich Rundles to Triple-A Columbus. 03/19/2009 Cleveland Indians optioned...

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Offseason Happenings: Rays, Not Indians, Made Talbot Decision

On Monday the Indians completed the Kelly Shoppach trade with the Tampa Bay Rays which was originally made on December 1st. As part of the original agreement to trade Shoppach to the Rays, the Rays (not the Indians) had until 11:59 p.m. on December 20th to make a choice from a list of two players and they ended up deciding to send right-hander Mitch Talbot to the Indians. As part of the original setup of the trade, the Indians also sent an unspecified amount of cash to...

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