Indians Prospect Insider

Around the Farm takes a quick look at some of yesterday's performances by Indians prospects throughout the system. The positions listed below are where the player was playing in yesterday's (playoff) game.
Jerad Head - LF, Columbus: 3-for-5, 2 R, HR, 6 RBI, K.
Mr. September is at it again. Last year Head was the Eastern League Finals MVP for Double-A Akron after hitting .345 with 0...

Photo credit: Lianna Holub/IPICaptains Win 6-1, Championship Series Bound
Lake County put together a monumental team effort on Tuesday night at Dow Diamond defeating Great Lakes 6-1 the wrap up the Eastern Division Title. The Captains will head west to Clinton, Iowa for a best of five series with the Lumberkings starting Wednesday September 14th at 7:30PM for the Midwest League Championship.

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Three Eastern League Championships since 2003, appearances in six of the last seven Eastern League Championship, and one year finishing without a winning record since 2002. Good streaks like these are bound to end and they did here in 2010.
If 2009 was a year of magic, 2010 was one of falling short. The club fell short of making a comeback to perhaps continue their streak of Eastern League...

Captains Beat Loons 7-6, Force Game Three
The Captains jumped out to a 6-0 lead early on Monday night and hung on for a 7-6 win. With the crucial win, Lake County evened the best of the three series with Great Lakes at one game a piece.
Jason Smit went 0-for-4 in the game but still managed to drive in two runs for the Captains. Smit hit into a fielder’s choice in the third inning...

Dan Mendlik/Cleveland IndiansThe 2010 Draft process came to a close on August 16th with the signing deadline coming and going, and once the dust settled the Indians had signed 27 of their 50 draft picks this year. They paid a club record $9.3 million in bonuses, with 15 players getting $100K or more and four players getting $1M or more.
The architect of the Indians aggressive approach in the...

Around the Farm takes a quick look at some of yesterday's performances by Indians prospects throughout the system. The positions listed below are where the player was playing in yesterday's (playoff) game.
Chase Burnette

Captains Fall Short Drop Game One 10-8
The Captains late rally fell short on Sunday afternoon as they lost to the Loons 10-8. Great Lakes took a 1-0 lead over Lake County in the best of the three series.
The Captains out hit the Loons 12-9, but Great Lakes was able to take advantage of six walks and three errors as they built leads of 6-2 and 10-5, but Lake County never quit with...

Around the Farm takes a quick look at some of yesterday's performances by Indians prospects throughout the system. The positions listed below are where the player was playing in yesterday's (playoff) game.
Drew Sutton

Right-hander Paolo EspinoClippers win big, head to Governor's Cup finals
The Clippers will play in the Governor's Cup final for the first time since 1997, thanks to a series-clinching 11-5 victory over the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees on Saturday afternoon. Columbus last won a International League title in 1996.
Trailing 1-0, the Clippers scored three runs in the third, capped off by...

Around the Farm takes a quick look at some of yesterday's performances by Indians prospects throughout the system. The positions listed below are where the player was playing in yesterday's (playoff) game.
Yohan Pino - RHP, Columbus: 7.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 6 K.
Wow, talk about stepping up your game in the playoffs. Pino put forth his strongest outing of the year, which is nice to...

"Indians Minor League Magazine" is a half hour program on the Cleveland Indians cable network SportsTime Ohio (STO) which airs weekly on Tuesday nights from 6:00-6:30 PM EST. The show recaps all of the highlights from the week that was in the Cleveland Indians farm system with lots of video, interviews, and in-studio guests.
This is the final episode of the season where the show hosts wrap...

Captains Win 3-2, Advance to MWL Semifinals
The Captains 3-2 win on Friday night over the WhiteCaps punched a ticket into the second round of the Midwest League Playoffs. Lake County won the series 2-1 over West Michigan setting up a best of three game series with Great Lakes. The Captains will host the Loons on Saturday September 11 at 6:30PM in Classic Park.
Chris Kersten provided...

Around the Farm takes a quick look at some of yesterday's performances by Indians prospects throughout the system. The positions listed below are where the player was playing in yesterday's (playoff) game.
Zach McAllister-SP, Columbus: 5 2/3 IP, 5 H, 4 R (1 ER), 4 K, BB. McAllister was unable to pick up his defense in the 6th, giving up two HR with two outs after an error to open the inning....

The 2010 Fall Instructional League gets underway out in Goodyear, Arizona on Wednesday September 15th. Over the course of a little over four weeks and in 14 actual games the Indians will have 50 players participate in the fall program which wraps up on Thursday October 14th.
Since so many players from the 2010 Draft signed late, it will be a time to help create some opportunities for pitchers...

Captains Shutout 8-0 to Force Game Three
West Michigan evened up the three game series at one with an 8-0 win over Lake County on Thursday night. The deciding game three is Friday September 10th at 6:30PM at Classic Park.
The WhiteCaps pounded out 19 hits in a must win situation scoring a run in the second, three times in the fifth, and added four more in the eighth. Corey Jones went...

You didn't think we were finished with this, did you? Welcome to the first ever playoff edition of Around the Farm! As always, Around the Farm takes a quick look at some of yesterday's performances by Indians prospects throughout the system. The positions listed below are where the player was playing in yesterday's (playoff) game.
Luke Carlin-C, Columbus: 3-4, HR (1), 2B, 3 RBI, BB, R.

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