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Cleveland Indians (8-8) @ Las Vegas Aces (10-5)


The Indians feature a very young rotation, but one that could be very very very good. Madison Bumgarner is the best of the bunch, but guys like Zack Wheeler, Daniel Hudson and Jeurys Familia should all be at least solid mid-rotation type of starters. The bullpen could be decent, but has too many question marks. The Indians will look for guys like Junichi Tazawa, Hideki Okajima and Steve Cishek to step up. On offense their is also a lot of upside, with guys like Giancarlo Stanton, Lonnie Chisenhall, Ben Revere, Oscar Taveras and Wilson Ramos. Veterans Victor Martinez and Dan Uggla are expected to mentor the young guys. It’s clear that the Indians are a couple of years away, but there is a lot of help on it’s way, with players like Taijuan Walker, Francisco Lindor, Oswaldo Arcia and Jesse Biddle in the system. That much youth means the Indians have a very low payroll, ranking 30th in the league at only 40.382 million. As would be expected, the preseason predictions for this young team weren’t all that great, with the Tribe expected to lose 90 games.


04/18/2013
Game 16: vs. Cleveland Indians
This was a marathon game that lasted almost 5 hours and 16 innings. Joe Kelly started the game and did a decent job, going 6.2-9-2-1-1-4. Affeldt, Kimbrel, Grilli and Edgin combined for 9.1 innings of scoreless relief as we edged out a win on a RBI double from Brandon Phillips. Gerardo Parra was 4-7 with a HR, double, 2 RBI and a run scored.
LV 3 – CLE 2 (16) (win 11-5)

League News:
The Tampa Bay Rays will be without ace Mat Latos for the next 3 months due to a torn triceps.

04/20/2013
Game 17: vs. Cleveland Indians
We started the game with back-to-back home runs from Phillips (#3) and Amarista (#1). The game would however be tied after 9 innings, as Oscar Taveras had an excellent outing, going 3-4 with 2 home runs, 3 RBI, 2 runs scored and a walk. Pitchers Max Scherzer (7.2-5-3-3-0-10) and Blake Beavan (7.1-8-3-3-1-2) were solid all night. Ryan Jackson took Josh Edgin deep in the 10th, to give Cleveland the lead. Junichi Tazawa pitched ascoreless inning and the handed us the loss.
LV 3 – CLE 4 (loss 11-6)

CHRIS DAVIS NEWS (update coming soon)

04/21/2013
Game 18: vs. Cleveland Indians
Our offense was able to come up with some key hits today to back up Jeremy Guthrie 's 7.0-4-3-3-3-3 performance. Phillips was 2-4 with 2 RBI and Jose Molina went 2-3 with a HR (#3), a walk, an RBI and 3 runs scored. Carter Capps retired the final 5 batters and was awarded his first save of the season.
LV 8 – CLE 3 (win 12-6)

Weekly Awards:
Bryce Harper of the Baltimore Orioles was named AL Player of the Week. The 20-year-old left fielder had 6 hits in 16 at-bats (.375) with 5home runs and 14 RBIs.
The St. Louis Cardinals’ Jimmy Rollins was awarded the National League Player of the Week award. The shortstop had 16 hits in 34 at-bats (.471) with 1 home run and 8 RBIs.

Power Rankings:
We drop to 3rd with 121 points. Pittsburgh (149) still leads while the New York Mets move up to second (136).