No way the Tribe, or any other club, will pay Kipnis $16.5M next season. They buy him out and tell him to comeback if he can't find a job.

Yes, exactly.

Did someone say they would ?

Kluber pitching today for Columbus, at 5:05 EDT

Andre Knott says they are shooting for a Sept. 1st return for a lot of these injured guys, to not totally disrupt the roster. Kluber, Otero, Olsen, etc... (Cookie?)

Hillbilly wrote:Kluber pitching today for Columbus, at 5:05 EDT

Andre Knott says they are shooting for a Sept. 1st return for a lot of these injured guys, to not totally disrupt the roster. Kluber, Otero, Olsen, etc... (Cookie?)

hillbilly, I am going to see Kluber in the best minor league field in the country!

OK guys, Kluber was supposed to throw about 80 pitches today. But after the 1st inning, an inning he threw 20 pitches and topped out at 88, he had a talk with trainer and never came back in.

Concerning but hopefully minor.

OK, so word is Kluber had tightness in his left abdominal area. Took him out as a precaution. Arm is fine.

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Always good to win goin into an off day! That was a long stretch of baseball and I can’t remember an off day I’ve been more excited about! #restup216

Hillbilly wrote:OK, so word is Kluber had tightness in his left abdominal area. Took him out as a precaution. Arm is fine.

OK, the comparison to the Salazar situation is too easy...

Well, we did get some good news. Carrasco was throwing 93 MPH in his simulated game the other day.

I am pretty sure I heard he is throwing an inning for Akron tonight. Should know more after that.

Not surprised he is already at 93 since he was able to do some throwing all along.

And actually you could consider this a great time to add a reliever, this deep into the season to add a fresh arm - especially one with his potential. Just an inning at a time.

Could be that 8th inning lockdown guy HB is looking for.

Good news out of Akron. Carrasco pitched his inning and did not have a set back. 1 hitless scoreless inning, 1 K. And even better, he threw 96. Even touched 97 once.

An article in The Athletic ranks Carlos Santana #5 in the MVP race:

5. Carlos Santana, 1B, Cleveland Indians

143 wRC+ (512 PA), 2.4 FR, 0.2 BR

.287/.410/.536, 27 HR, 88 BB, 77 K, 4/4 SB

How happy are Santana and Cleveland to be reunited? Rescued from a bad fit in Philadelphia via the Mariners and a pair of December trades that sent Jean Segura to the Phils and redistributed Yandy Díaz, Edwin Encarnación and Jake Bauers about the league, Santana is in the midst of a career year at the age of 33.

A first-time All-Star this July, he got to play the game and participate in the Home Run Derby in his home park, and his bat has helped lead Cleveland back into the thick of an AL Central race they seemed to relinquish after an otherwise disappointing offseason and a variety of injuries, underperformance, and even a trade of some of their biggest stars from a year ago.

That’s a great narrative, but it’s not why Santana completes my list. He completes it because of the production of that career year at the plate, his surprising athleticism without a bat in his hand (remember, Santana is a 33-year-old former catcher who is built like a mailbox), and his reliability.

With 88 more plate appearances, Santana will become the only player to have come to the plate at least 600 times in each of the last nine seasons.

Kluber has an oblique strain and has been shut down for 2 weeks.

Jefry Rodriguez, Dan Otero, and Bradley Zimmer will all play for Akron tonight in rehab stints.

And to go back a couple posts ... what makes that Santana stat even more impressive ... only player to have 600 AB's the last 9 straight seasons ... is that he never wants a day off. He doesn't even like to DH.