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Clayton Cook (Photo: IPI)The 2011 playoffs kick off tonight for most of the teams around Minor League Baseball. The Cleveland Indians have two teams in the postseason with Triple-A Columbus and High-A Kinston, both of which are in action on the road tonight.
Columbus will send right-handed pitcher Zach McAllister to the mound to face off against the Durham Bulls in Durham, NC, and about 200...

The Cleveland Indians had two affiliates make the postseason this year as Triple-A Columbus and High-A Kinston both made it in for a chance to play another week to ten days and win a league championship.
Here are the game schedules for the first round of each of their best-of-five series’:
Columbus
Game 1: Columbus at Durham, Wednesday September 7th 7:05 PM EST
Game...

Beau Mills
(photo: Columbus
Clippers)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.
Beau Mills: 1B, Columbus: 2-4, 1 R, 2 2B, 1 K:
Mills put an exclamation point on a fine season with his third multi-hit game in a row,...

Carlos CarrascoThe Cleveland Indians announced today that right-handed pitcher Carlos Carrasco will undergo Tommy John surgery in New York next Wednesday (9/14). He is expected to be out for 12-14 months while he rehabs from the surgery and builds himself back up to pitch again in the big leagues. He will more than likely not pitch in the big leagues in 2012.
Carrasco, 24, had been on the disabled...

(MILB.com/Akron Aeros)Fans in Akron are not used to this whole no-postseason thing. The Aeros have been used to postseason baseball, but at the turn of the decade, it's been two straight seasons of cleaning up Canal Park after the first few days of September.
This was still a team that fought to the end and it took until the final weekend to be eliminated from postseason contention. It was...

Paul Cousineau and I are back on the cyberwaves tonight for some Cleveland Indians baseball talk with another edition of "Smoke Signals" from 11:00 - 11:30 p.m. EST.
The season is rapidly winding down, and with the loss to the Tigers yesterday in what really was a sweep or die series it looks like the Indians are all but done in the AL Central race. They are not mathematically eliminated,...

Danny Salazar (Photo: IPI)Captains close season with 4-1 win
Lake County closed the 2011 season on Monday afternoon with a 4-1 win over Bowling Green. The Captains finished the season strong at home sweeping the Hot Rods at Classic Park.
Bowling Green to a 1-0 lead in the first inning with an RBI single by Julio Cedeno scoring Robby Price.
LeVon Washington led off the bottom...

Francisco LindorAround theFarm 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.
Sure, they kicked Jerry Lewis off the MDA Labor Day telethon, but that doesn't mean that all traditions are lost. There's still that little thing called baseball. Yesterday was...

Sailing with the Clippers is a weekly Monday morning installment that explores the week that was for Triple-A Columbus.
After a pitching-dominated week, the Clippers came back in the final full week of the regular season to put up all kinds of crooked numbers, as they have been accustomed to doing for most of the season. The team finally received a much-needed off day on Thursday, as they...

I have been out in Woodbridge, VA covering Kinston the last few days. The trip was initially planned to see Kinston play at the end of the year and also possibly see their final games as the Indians' High-A affiliate. Yesterday they clinched a playoff berth, so I was able to see them clinch, although it was a mild celebration in comparison to the insanity of winning a championship. In any case, congrats...

K-Tribe celebrates clincher
(photo: Tony Lastoria) Kinston Secures Playoff Spot!
The K-Tribe secured a berth in the 2011 postseason with a doubleheader sweep of the Potomac Nationals Sunday afternoon. Kinston won game one 5-3 before taking game two 1-2.
The Indians continued a trend of early dominance in the series by jumping on top in the first inning of game number one. Tyler...

Hagadone could be a dominating late
inning arm in the near future (Photo: IPI)
Some news, notes and thoughts from my Indians notebook…
Hagadone back in the bigs
Triple-A Columbus left-handed reliever Nick Hagadone got his first call to Cleveland a week ago last Friday, but his stay was short as he was optioned out last Sunday so the Indians could call up Jerad Head...

Jared Goedert
(photo: Columbus
Clippers)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.
The Indians had one of those rare nights in which their minor league system won each and every one of their games. While the list below isn't every...

"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.
The show recaps the week that was in the system and also features...

Juan Diaz (Photo: Lianna Holub) Akron wins, but eliminated from playoffs
The Akron Aeros did their job on Saturday beating the Harrisburg Senators 6-2 at Metro Bank Park.
The Altoona Curve, however, didn

The Indians rookie level action came to a close in August. Here is a quick final look at some of the numbers from the team teams this year.
Arizona League Indians
The AZL Indians wrapped up 2011 with a 30-26 record, just 4.0 games out of first place in the AZ Central Division. The AZL Indians team ERA of 3.70 was the lowest team ERA in the Arizona League.
The team...