Minor Happenings: Year End Discussion With Ross Atkins

"Minor Happenings" is a weekly column which covers the important developments and news in the Indians farm system. While most of the information in this report is from my own research and through interviews I have conducted with organizational personnel, some information in this report is collected and summarized from the various news outlets that cover each team. Here is a year end conversation I had with Indians Director of Player Development Ross Atkins in the past week. ...

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Smoke Signals 9/30: Almost Done Edition

Paul Cousineau and I are both back on the cyberwaves tonight with another edition of "Smoke Signals" from 9:30-10:30 PM EST. This is our second to last show of the season, and really the final show with a loose format where we will talk about lots of different things up and down the system.  Reason being is next week we will wrap the season and (thankfully) put a bow on it with some year end awards at the big league and minor league level. Tonight's focus...

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2010 Instructional League Recap: September 28

Here are the box scores from the Instructional League and Parallel League games on Tuesday September 28th. In the next update tomorrow only the Instructional League team will be shown as they were the only ones in action while the Parallel League team was off on Wednesday. RHE Reds790 Indians9113 HittersPOSINNPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSE 1. Washington, LevonCF-3311000001000 Sub Cid, DelviCF-2200000000001 2. Wolters, TonySS-2210000001001 Sub Garcia, Robel2B-3200000100000 3. Greenwell, BoLF-4211000020010 4. Aguilar, Jesus1B-4423200100000 5. Abreu,...

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Video Recap: August & September 2010

Here is another batch of scouting videos I shot of several players throughout the Cleveland Indians minor league system that have been on my You Tube page but I have not posted on the IPI yet. Players shot include: Jason Knapp (Lake County), Tyler Holt (Lake County), T.J. House (Kinston), Scott Barnes (Akron), Ramon Cespedes (Lake County), Preston Guilmet (Lake County), Juan Diaz (Kinston), Giovanni Soto (Lake County), Francisco Jimenez (Lake County), Ezequiel...

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2010 Instructional League Recap: September 27

Okay, here is the first box score of Instructional League, albeit a short one. This is from the Parallel League, a new league that several of the organizations put together last year to give some addition time to higher level prospects in AA/A+ who need to make up innings or at bats for various reasons (i.e. injury). The Indians and Reds share one Parallel League team with the lineup usually split between the two teams. I expect to have the first Instructional League box score from action on Tuesday at some point today, and will post late tonight....

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Lavisky Happy To Be Playing For Hometown Indians

Photo credit: Tony Lastoria We are now almost two weeks into the Fall Instructional League program the Cleveland Indians run every fall from mid-September to mid-October.  New players to the system are getting acclimated to what spring training will be like this coming March as well as getting inundated with lots of instruction and drills. Roughly 50 players are currently participating at the Indians player development complex out in Goodyear, Arizona. ...

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2010 Lake County Captains Championship Tribute Video

Photo credit: Lianna Holub As promised last week, here is a tribute video that I have put together with the big help of Michael Taylor. He took the raw video footage from the Game 5 win by the Captains last week for the championship and put it together along with lots of photos from myself and Lianna Holub, and put together a nice tribute video to the Captains championship. Make sure to choose the option to view at 480p for better picture quality, and if you want to...

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Indians Announce 2010 On-Base Award Winners

The Cleveland Indians on Sunday announced the year-end organizational winners of their Minor League On-Base Program “On-Base-Where Careers Take Off”, presented by Continental Airlines. The on-base program stresses pitch recognition and patience at the plate for all position players within the organization’s Player Development System. Players are rewarded during the season with a cash recognition for their performances based on three different non-traditional hitting categories...

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Minor Happenings: Kipnis Has Impressive Finish

"Minor Happenings" is a weekly column which covers the important developments and news in the Indians farm system. While most of the information in this report is from my own research and through interviews I have conducted with organizational personnel, some information in this report is collected and summarized from the various news outlets that cover each team. Small update today with some last minute cuts from Farm Director Ross Atkins and some injury updates. As an...

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