Francisco Mejia - C - Padres

Making his first start for the Padres, Francisco Mejia homered twice and drove in four runs Thursday in a 6-2 win over the Reds.

The homers were the first of his career. He previously had 14 plate appearances with the Indians last year, four with the Indians this year and one with the Padres on Tuesday. Mejia hit 14 homers in 427 at-bats in Triple-A this year, so don't necessarily look at tonight's outburst as a sign of things to come for the short-term.

Of course the lack of any home run hitting by the outfielders is a countervailing negative

Sitting at the bar at the golf course today. Guy next to me nudges me and points at a lady that walked in with an Indians shirt on. I said "Go Tribe" and she looked at me and said are you an Indians fan ? Yep. She says my son in law plays for the Indians. I said really, who is he ? She says Ramirez. I say Jose ?


She says no, Neil !



Ohhhhhh, good to meet you !

Neat!

Ha, great story. I bet she gets that every time.

Since Ramirez [Jose that is] hit his last homerun on Aug 17, he's had 78 at bats, 10 singles, 3 doubles; average .167; slugging 205

Miller activated today. Donaldson activated tomorrow.

Another bullpen disaster. Team is going to enter playoffs in opposite status as last year when the 22 game winning streak made the Indians the favorite among the oddsmakers. This team will be entering at the end of a long funk.

You got that right, Civ.

Last year they were playing loosey- goosey in September and choked like dogs in October.

Were half way to reversing that trend because were playing like shit in September but ready to play like champs in October

We can only hope! It's easy to forget that the '97 team had a pretty nondescript record in the regular season.
But unless we get some consistency out of the bullpen there's no way this team can go far in October.

Donaldson is activated and in lineup. 3rd base, batting 5th.

civ ollilavad wrote:We can only hope! It's easy to forget that the '97 team had a pretty nondescript record in the regular season.
But unless we get some consistency out of the bullpen there's no way this team can go far in October.

Lol, if only it was that simple. But I can propose a simple alternative to that...

Kluber, Carrasco and Bieber/Clev (or Bauer even) pitch great and far enough into games for our reliable guys to take over.

And I include Oliver Perez in there.

So Perez, Cody, Hand and Miller (and Cimber for a righty batter here and there) could easily do well in a series where off days are much more common. And if the starters just give them 6-7 good innings it's very doable.

And our starters are more than capable of having that kind of series against anyone.

would be helpful if that other Jose Ramirez returned. The guy we have now is hitting a bit above 200 for his last 30 games and hasn't homered in weeks. Maybe he should get some time off or does he need to out there every day re-learning 2nd base?

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Scroll down to the Josh Donaldson video

Trade was worth it just for that!