Indians Prospect Insider

(Photo: Kinston Indians)The 2011 Kinston Indians are an enigmatic team, that's for sure. This week, they won three straight games, with 10+ hits in each game. With that said, they don't have a single player that's hitting the ball all that well. They have two players batting over .300, with only one registering enough bats to show up on the Batting Leaders for the team. They have one player with more...

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 game.
Tyler Holt-CF, Kinston: 3-for-4, 2R, 2B, HR, RBI, 2 SB:
The Kinston Indians ended today's game with four hits, and Holt had three of them. That only should be enough to describe the type...

Tyler "Havoc" (photo: TLastoria)Fantastic pitching helped propel Kinston towards a 3-2 win over Myrtle Beach Sunday afternoon at Historic Grainger Stadium. With the win Kinston (6-10), split the four game series with first place Myrtle Beach (11-5).
Trailing 1-0, the K-Tribe evened the score when Tyler Holt led off the bottom of the first with a solo home run. It was his first homer of the...

Jason Smit broke up C.J. Riefenhauser no-hit bid in the final inning with one out, but the Captains fell 1-0 in the first game of Saturday's doubleheader.
Lake County crushed seven homeruns in game two including three from Jesus Aguilar and two from Anthony Gallas, crushing Bowling Green 14-4.
Bowling Green scored the game's only run in game one in the top of the second inning....

Here is a listing of some new videos recently added to my You Tube page that I shot and edited from spring training. These are videos of players in the Indians' system that I have not previously uploaded any videos for or whom have very outdated and old videos on my You Tube page. I have tons of video from spring training of other players, but will upload those videos over the course of the year as...

Kinston's three game win streak came to an end, as Myrtle Beach beat the K-Tribe 10-0 Saturday night at Historic Grainger Stadium.
It was a rough start for the K-Tribe as two errors, a single, walk and hit batter led to two runs for Myrtle Beach in the top of the first inning. Ryan Stausborger scored on an error after reaching on an error. Jared Hoying drove in a run later in the inning on...

Regular Season Record:
8-7
Games this Past Week:
Friday, April 15 - Lake County, 7 @ Bowling Green, 11 (Loss: Striz)
Saturday, April 16 - Lake County, 10 @ Bowling Green, 7 (Win: Sarianides, Save: Ehlert)
Sunday, April 17 - Lake County, 6 @ Bowling Green, 7 (Loss: Dew)
Monday, April 18 – Lansing, 7 @ Lake County, 5 (Loss: Reichenbach)
Wednesday,...

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 game.
Chad Huffman - 1B, Columbus: 4-5, 5 R, 3 HR, 9 RBI, BB.
The stats speak for itself; Huffman played out of his mind. Coming into Thursday's game, Huffman was hitting .195 and struggling offensively....

Huffman (photo: phxwebguy)The Cleveland Indians' minor league organization put on quite a show Thursday Night, sweeping their games by a combined 40-13. Is it a coincidence that this dominant performance came on the same day Tony L. had his surgery? I think not...
The Columbus Clippers rode the hot bat of Chad Huffman to a second straight win over the Louisville Bats by a 19-3 final score Thursday...

Tony LastoriaTony's partial nephrectomy (partial kidney removal) surgery was scheduled for this morning, a little after 7:00. Tony's wife e-mailed me a few minutes ago to let me know that the surgery went very well, and that he's in recovery as we speak. The surgeons were not only able to remove the tumor, but were able to save a part of the kidney. Tony did very well through the surgery and lost very...

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 game.
Alex White - SP, Columbus: 7 IP, 5 H, 2 R (2 ER), 0 BB, 7 K.
Coming into the season, high expectations were placed upon former first round pick, Alex White. While it's early, to this point,...

Kinston won their second straight game, beating the Blue Rocks 4-1 Wednesday afternoon in Delaware. With the win, Kinston (4-8) wrapped up their third series victory of the season. The K-Tribe finished the roadtrip with a 3-3 record.
Kinston starter Marty Popham was brilliant in an early morning spot start. Popham had a perfect game going through four innings, but was removed due to pitch...

(Photo: Tony Lastoria)Indians infielder Nick Bartolone may be small in stature, but he’s big on defense.
Bartolone, 20, is small and scrawny at 5’10 and 153 pounds, which because of his small size and look has earned him the nickname of “Rango” from his teammates. No, it is not a nickname given because of his outstanding range at shortstop (though would be just as fitting), but because...

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 game.
Justin Toole-2B, Kinston: 4-for-5, 4 RBI: Toole is really starting to make a name for himself in the organization. With this performance, he bounced his average up to .435 on the season. Toole can...

Brach pitching for the Captains (Photo: Tony Lastoria)In his Double-A debut, right-handed pitcher Brett Brach helped the Akron Aeros win game two of a three-game series against the Bowie Baysox 3-0 Tuesday at Prince George's Stadium.
Brach picked up his first win at the Double-A level pitching six scoreless innings, scattering two hits, walking one and striking out four. Right-handed pitcher...