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Report that the tribe have signed Myers. This has probably been mentioned in one of the other active threads.

According to Hoynes, Cleveland offered 4/44 while Boston won Victorino's services at 3/39.

Indians 1st round pick sits down with David Laurila of fangraphs for a chat. As long as the mistake is still in the write up, see if you can find the new Indians scouting director, apparently Brad Grant's slightly more lucrative brother.

Some behind the scenes information on how Jimenez has been attempting his return to better pitching days. Interesting to see how he was initially against help from the coaching staff, but has since come around and is now seeing results. If only he could have come to this conclusion sooner.

Michael Brantley talks about his approach to hitting and specifically his 4-for-5 night against the Red Sox last Thursday.

An interview with Justin Masterson over at Fangraphs. Masterson is mainly asked about pitching as an art form. Some interesting information about his approach to hitters and confidence in self.

per Hoynes. press release from the tribe here

I was at the game, but didn't see any of this from where I sat.

Anyone else pissed off about this? The fact that their GM even acknowledged some doubt about why Jimenez was still in the game after the deal was completed kind of upsets me.

Currently available in their audio vault. Not much revealed as per usual. It's good that he's going on local media shows to maintain the a connection between the front office and the fans (via the media).

An look at homeruns by outfield fly-ball instead of using just "fly-ball" data that includes infield fly-balls. Progressive Field ranks as one of the lowest with regards to inflating homeruns per outflield fly-ball. Interestingly, Petco isn't the lowest, though it is second lowest. New Yankee Stadium has the highest park factor for homeruns per outfield fly-ball. There's also a little unrelated tidbit in the beginning of the article that I didn't know. The author writes that Fangraphs is inconsistent in their K% and BB% metrics, as they use K/AB for the K%, but BB/PA in the BB%.

From Beyond the Boxscore, a pitch f/x based look at Alex White's first career major league start against Detroit this past Saturday.

An article over at THT mostly about the Jamaican born starting pitcher of the Tribe who has a knack for producing groundballs in the bushel full. There's a conclusion that he has the tools to be an "ace" of the staff.

A day after Asdrubal signing, the Indians have avoided arbitration with Chris Perez as well for $2.25 million.

The Cavs are currently the worst team in the NBA in combined offensive and defensive ratings (as used by basketball-reference). Not the the single worst offensive team, that would be the Milwaukee Bucks, and not the single worst defensive team, that being the Washington Wizards, but when taken together both offensively and defensively, the worst team in the league providing neutral opponent. This is very good news actually as it will give the team a chance to hit the lottery and hopefully be a top 5 drafting team.

Finally Steve Phillips solves all of our Cleveland Indians problems from the comfort of his den.

I think this might be pay content. In any case Brown call's out Brick. And also discusses how he asked the Indians director of minor league development (Rusty Watson or something) what he needed to work on to make it to the bigs.

Grady is going to Vail. He'll be getting an arthroscopic surgery by Dr. Richard Steadman, with the potential for microfracture surgery to stimulate cartilage growth if need be.

You know I was actually starting to come around for the guy then he goes and spouts off some gems about the city of Cleveland. The Cavs can do Noah a favor by making the next game his last game playing in Cleveland for this season.

Ryan's take on the Tribe for The Hardball Times.

From the PD, a short article outlining the remaining schedules for the Cavs, Lakers, and Magic. Home court advantage is in favor of the Cavs during the stretch, strength of schedule fairly even for all three teams, though the Cavs have the most difficult.