SB Nation User Blog: zempf

Tigers swapping Guillen & Cabrera in the field

zempf — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:59:19 -0000

Tigers swapping Guillen & Cabrera in the field

Apparently Guillen's moving over to third base & Cabrera's going to first. Definitely diminishes Cabrera's value somewhat, though it helps to get his glove away from the hot corner.

Network World Interviews John Adams

zempf — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:33:28 -0000

Network World Interviews John Adams

IT analyst by day, drum-banger by night, here's a short interview with John Adams.

MLB Blackouts and You: The definitive guide

zempf — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:50:18 -0000

MLB Blackouts and You: The definitive guide

For those of you (us) watching Indians' games via Extra Innings or MLB.tv, here's a pretty good guide to which games will be blacked out and why. And be glad you're not a Padres fan living in Vegas.

Game Thread(s): March 14, 2008

zempf — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:22:09 -0000

Split-squad action again today, with one game going on right now vs. the Nationals & the other one happening tonight at 7, also vs. the Nationals. Sowers with the start for the Tribe in the matinee, gave up one hit but worked a scoreless first. Seems to be somewhat of a AAAA roster for the day game:

Carroll, 2B
Michaels, LF
Francisco, CF
Shoppach, C
Marte, 3B
Snyder, RF
Brown, 1B
Sandoval, SS
Mills, DH

And as I'm typing this, Andy Marte just hit a homer deep to left off of Matt Chico. 1-0 Tribe.

Game Thread: March 11, 2008

zempf — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:07:24 -0000

Indians/Tigers in Winter Haven on MLB.tv and Gameday Audio. Tigers are throwing out the split squad (so we don't get to see Cabrera, but do get Renteiria). Cliff Lee on the mound for the Indians, trying once again to prove that he should be the 5th starter. Indians lineup looks like:

Sizemore, CF
Barfield, 2B
Dellucci, LF
Martinez, C
Blake, 1B
Francisco, RF
Marte, 3B
Mills, DH
Sandoval, SS

Game Thread: March 5, 2008

zempf — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:04:38 -0000

The first ST game available on MLB.tv today -- I never thought I'd be so happy to hear Matt Underwood's voice. Paul Byrd gets the start for the Tribe vs. former Tiger Jair Jurrjens. Today's lineup is:

Carroll, 2B
Dellucci, LF
Hafner, DH
Peralta, SS
Garko, 1B
Blake, 3B
Michaels, RF
Haad, C
Crowe, CF

Game Thread: March 4, 2008

zempf — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:05:42 -0000

More Grapefruit League action as the Tribe takes on the Reds. Alas, yet another game with no audio or video, so we'll all have to use our imaginations and follow along with the box score. Lee gets the start for the Tribe vs. Matt Belisle, Indians' lineup looks like:

Sizemore, CF
Gutierrez, RF
Martinez, C
Francisco, LF
Cabrera, SS
Shoppach, DH
Marte, 1B
Gonzalez, 3B
Herr, 2B

Road trip to New York!

zempf — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:47:03 -0000

Tickets for the Yankees single-game seats went on sale this morning & I just bought a pair for the middle game of the Indians series in May (Wednesday, May 7, to be exact). Not sure if any of you other east-coasters are interested in heading up there, but I figure it's my last chance to see "the house that Ruth built" (or whatever) and I'd really enjoy watching the Yanks getting beat down in their own home. Anyone else heading up for any games that series?

Alternately, maybe consider this the catchall road trip thread, since I'll probably also head down to Camden Yards for a game or two this year (Indians/Orioles series isn't till September, though) & would of course like to meet up with any of my fellow Tribe fans for a beer or three.

Jonathan Van Every interview

zempf — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:54:51 -0000

This interview is somewhat interesting -- it's a Sox fan/Baseball Prospectus author talking with Jonathan Van Every, who was picked up from the Indians this fall as a minor league free agent. Really, I only found this interesting because he didn't seem like he was super pleased with the way his development had been handled by the Indians:

DL: Were you being asked to do things that you felt were maybe not in your best interest as a player?
JVE: I think so. I don't think that it was crazy for them to ask those things of me, but I was kind of going outside of my game and thinking too much on the negative side. I was thinking about not striking out, not doing this, not doing that, instead of about what I could do to get better or how I could get more hits. Thinking more on the positive side and developing a new routine helped me tremendously.

Josh Hamilton Dealt!

zempf — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:43:00 -0000

...but not to the Indians. The Rangers picked him up from Cincinnati in exchange for Edinson Volquez and another minor-league pitcher. I know some people around here were clamoring for us to trade for the guy, but I guess that means he's off the table now.

Story at http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20071221&content_id=2335816&vkey=hotstove2007&fe xt=.jsp