Pitchers:

 

SP Lee

SP Carmona

SP Pavano

SP Reyes

SP S. Lewis (he has been pitchin the best of the guys right now)

RP Wood

RP Perez

RP J. Lewis

RP Betancourt (on a short leash)

RP Kobayashi (short leash as well)

RP Smith

RP Salas (i wanted a lefty, but its Sipp/Rundles or him, and Sipp isnt fully ready yet, Rundles has been doin bad)

 

(im keeping 12 pictures)

 

Position players:

 

C Victor Martinez

C Kelly Shoppach

INF Garko

INF Cabrera

INF Barfield

INF Caroll

INF Peralta

INF DeRosa

OF Sizemore

OF Choo

OF Crowe

OF Francisco

DH Hafner

 

(Delucci is gone, released, traded or whatever, Replaced by 1B/OF Brown)

 

First Call ups: (guys that i would call up first depending on the needs of the team)

 

Pitchers:

 

SP Laffey

SP Sowers

SP Jackson

RP Miller

RP Rundles

RP Sipp

 

Position:

 

C/1B/3B/LF Gimenez

1B/OF Brown

INF Valbuena

C Toregas

 

tell me what ya guys think of my roster?

Part 2 of my Free Agency, looking at the pitching of free agency, it's been said that closer role is the #1 thing to get this off-season, Then bullpen help/Right-Handed Starter so here are candidates starting with starting pitching

SP:
Paul Byrd
Bartolo Colon
Jon Garland
Jason Jennings
Braden Looper
Jon Lieber
Pedro Martinez
Jaime Moyer
Mark Mulder
Carl Pavano
Brad Penny
Oliver Perez
Mark Prior
Ben Sheets
Randy Wolf

Now to rule out some guys, Randy Wolf, Brad Penny, Ben Sheets, will be the highest paid of the group, so rule all three out, we aren't gonna pay for them, Martinez and Colon are a little washed up, so im ruling them out, Mulder I would only take for a short-term cheap contract, I don't expect that, Jennings should go back to the national league, so heres what I think of what's left

Jon Garland/Oliver Perez- still young may go under the radar, Garland had an off season

Mark Prior/Carl Pavano- Injury prone, maybe give a one year shot, maybe should be in the bullpen

Moyer/Lieber/Byrd- old guys that can pitch, I would love Moyer to come to Cleveland, to teach sowers

Braden Looper- Okay starter, Former closer, will he be a closer maybe again

Now to the the closer roles/help in the bullpen

RP:
Joe Beimel
Chad Cordero
Brian Fuentes
Eric Gagne
Tom Gordon
Eddie Guardado
Trevor Hoffman
Bob Howry
Jason Isringhausen
Brandon Lyon
Darren Oliver
Dennys Reyes
Brian Shouse
Kerry Wood
Jamey Wright

Now I would rule out Fuentes and Oliver, both have way too much interest by teams that can outbid us, then i'll rule out Gagne, Guardado, Gordon they are a little washed up, I think if we want Cordero we will have to overpay for him, I would rather have Hoffman for that much, so im ruling him out, even tho he may be a true option, so here's what I think of who is left

Wright- He's a decent pitcher, who is a spot starter, he did well for Texas, he would be an insurance policy if we get him

Beimel- Veteran that seems to know what he is doing, I would like him to be picked up, but I don't know his price

Wood/Isringhausen- Both veterans, but Wood doesn't stay healthy and neither has Isringhausen, but I would take a chance on them if we needed to but im sure Wood would want too much

Shouse- I didn't know of his name til I looked up his stats, hes seems pretty good, he may go under the radar, he would make a nice Middle Relief guy

Howry/Reyes- Both veterans that know how to pitch, both are possible set-up guys, Howry is older but he had his best years in Cleveland, im sure we can bring him back, I don't know eithers price tho

Lyon/Hoffman- More than likely we will sign one or the other as our closer, Hoffman will only be short time due to his age, I think Lyon is more like Borowski style of closer, so he may do the job, but not the way we want

That's my scoup on the pitchers, so what do you guys think?

 

Well i thought i would take a shot at being an analyst for the cleveland indians and deciding some off season stuff for the Indians, i have posted this up in a thread but i also thought i would let everyone enjoy this as well, so here is part 1

 

Alright I've been looking at free agency, and here's a list of top candidate position players that Cleveland is more than likely looking at:

3B:
Casey Blake
Joe Crede

SS:
Orlando Cabrera
Alex Cintron
David Eckstein
Nomar Garciaparra
Edgar Renteria
Nick Punto
Omar Vizquel

2B:
Mark Grudzielanek
Orlando Hudson
Mark Loretta
Juan Uribe

1B:
Kevin Millar

OF
Eric Hinske
Raul Ibanez
Felipe Lopez

That is the possible players that could be looked at almost all of them can play third, I don't see us bringing in a Shortstop especially one with a name, so that rules out almost all of them, Hudson is going to be one of the top infield free agents, so we aren't going to get him, Millar is on the downturn and Uribe has had some character issues, so they are ruled out, Ibanez will more than likely want to stay in the outfield but I would love to have him, so the final choices for infield thro free agency are

Blake
Grudzielanek
Loretta
(those last three are all up in age, so no future 3B/2B)

Crede
(injury prone tho)

Hinske
Lopez
(both haven't proven a whole lot, but aren't over 30)

The free agency isn't too great this year to a lower budget team, but those are the players we may go after, I don't see us going after an outfielder unless we get rid of delucci and trade either Fransisco or Gutierrez (choo won't be gone, neither will Crowe) so what do you guys think?

Well the season is about to begin, and i kinda miss some of the regulars who are at other places, it would be nice to have them back at the start of the season, i miss our debates about this and that, those are always fun, but this is a new season for the cavs, this and next season may be two of the biggest seasons for the Cavs in the history of the francise, since we have to keep Lebron and Ferry has to finish the make up of this team while MB has to show he can make changes as well as coach well, so Cavs fans

 

 

GO CAVS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Well i made my mock draft 2.0 which is updated after the draft lottery was made, well if ya can i would like ur comments on it, i think ill make like 3.0 before the draft depending on who is falling and who is rising