Cleveland Sports Forum

Happy to announce I have tickets to 2 Tribe spring training games at Goodyear.

And just added on another one when the Tribe visits the Angels in Tempe. (Closer to me than Goodyear)

Grand total of 3 !

Indians and Browns sites back thanks to Ryan Bauman.

Better bring your binoculars, TFIR. I assume access to players this year may require a hazmat suit.

seagull - lol just want to see the games.

For one of the Goodyear games my wife and I will be on the grassy berm.

Maybe the regulars will play a little longer in the games. I doubt it. Still, 75 guys in camp...no B games...no split squads .

I hear even their tee times have been cut back.

Lol, they certainly play on different courses than I do so I couldn't say!

Advice taken though - we will bring the binocs for closeups.

Try to spy out George Valera. Is his swing his great at perfect as sometimes suggested? I don't think that Aaron Bracho my other favorite is around until they empty the camp and refill April 1.

Greg Allen dfa'd for the second time this winter. Want to bring him back on a minor league contract? Not much worse or better than current CF options.

I'd bet both Allen and the Tribe figure he's better off looking elsewhere at this point.

HAROLD RAMIREZ
OF, CLEVELAND INDIANS

Indians claimed OF Harold Ramirez off waivers from the Marlins.

Ramirez was designated for assignment by Miami last week to clear out a roster spot for reliever John Curtiss. The 26-year-old outfielder holds a career .274/.311/.411 batting line in 122 major league games.

So what roster spot do we clear out for Ramirez?

Jordan Humphreys who sounded like an interesting pitching prospect to me

The Indians announced Wednesday that they’ve claimed outfielder Harold Ramirez off waivers from the Marlins. Right-hander Jordan Humphreys was designated for assignment to open a spot on the 40-man roster.

The 26-year-old Ramirez debuted at the MLB level with the Marlins in May 2019 and posted a superb .368/.419/.474 batting line over his first month of action before his bat cooled off. Ramirez struggled through June and July that year before rebounding, to an extent, in the final two months of the year. Overall, his .276/.312/.416 batting line through 446 plate appearances as a rookie looked to position him well for a lengthier audition in 2020.

That didn’t happen, however, as Ramirez was one of the 20 members of the Marlins organization to test positive for Covid-19 during the team’s outbreak. When he returned from that diagnosis, he sustained a hamstring injury almost immediately and didn’t return from there on. All told, he played in just three games last summer.

Ramirez adds to what has been a consistently jumbled outfield mix for Cleveland over the past few seasons. The Indians brought in former division rival Eddie Rosario on a one-year deal to play left field, and they’ll likely give Oscar Mercado a chance to rebound in center field. Beyond that, playing time ought to be largely up for grabs, and Ramirez should be squarely in the mix, alongside Josh Naylor, Jordan Luplow, Jake Bauers, Bradley Zimmer and Daniel Johnson.

All of those players in that hodgepodge, Ramirez included, have at least one minor league option remaining, so there won’t be any cases of a player winning out solely to avoid a DFA. That should set the stage for a legitimate competition during camp, though Ramirez and Luplow are the only two right-handed bats in the bunch, which could give them an advantage.

Humphreys, 24, has yet to make his big league debut but had a big 2017 season across two Class-A levels in the Mets organization before requiring Tommy John surgery. He allowed just two runs in 13 innings of Rookie ball in 2019 as he rehabbed from that surgery and likely would’ve been ticketed for a Double-A assignment in 2020 had their been a minor league season.

The Mets traded Humphreys to the Giants in exchange for Billy Hamilton, however, and Cleveland eventually picked Humphreys up off waivers. Coincidentally, both Humphreys and Hamilton are with the Indians organization at the moment, as Hamilton inked a minor league deal earlier in the winter.

Cleveland will have a week to trade Humphreys or attempt to pass him through outright waivers. If they can indeed sneak him through waivers, he’d remain in camp as a non-roster invitee and give the club an interesting depth piece. In 169 2/3 professional innings, Humphreys has a 2.60 ERA with an above-average 26.1 percent strikeout rate and a brilliant 4.4 percent walk rate.

did bounce back pretty well in 19 OPS each month
May 893
June 658
July 714
August 758
September 774

That impresses; one of things about Naquin that turned me off was that he faded every year; he didn't re-adjust after pitchers adjusted.
Maybe this guy has something to offer.
I assume I can find in some of my several year ago prospect handbooks.
Looks like he has more to offer than Gamel

Well looking at his minor league stats, never been a big homer guy and doesn't walk much. But the extra base hits picked up a lot in AA AAA and for the Marlins.

Seems like Humphreys has a good chance of clearing waivers. Teams are full. Tommy John.... no Majors experience.

He's been claimed a couple times over the winter so someone may be willing to make room for him. A non-tending team without a lot of pitching in the pipeline. Orioles?

I assume this attentive group of Tribe fans is aware that the Indians now have in camp:

A pair of Perez
A pair of Ramirez
A pair of Rosarios
A pair of Naylors
A pair of D Johnsons and a Jones
A pair of Freemans [or Freemen]
Unfortunately only one of the Logan Allens is present at present