tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11805401.post5972605219371891302..comments2024-03-16T08:21:16.037-04:00Comments on The DiaTribe: Tomahawks with Grief & RegretPaul Cousineauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03490622970961409253noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11805401.post-32772950517825419882012-08-22T09:56:11.788-04:002012-08-22T09:56:11.788-04:00This is a depressing team to watch Paul! I find my...This is a depressing team to watch Paul! I find myself looking forward to next year already, hoping they will at least do something over the winter to help support some of the younger players on the team. In the meantime, Acta has to go! Radinsky should not have been let go and now it shows that has done nothing to help the team. I understand Acta doesn't have a lot of talent to work with, but the bottom line is he is never going to be a playoff caliber manager. Give Alomar a chance over the next year and half and see what he can do, we all know he is going to be a manager some day, why not give him a chance now, rather than lose him, when we know what we have in Acta. This team needs a shakeup and Acta doesn't have the ability to do that.sjwebber28https://www.blogger.com/profile/04492863290177250394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11805401.post-34237000279296656522012-08-20T11:51:53.941-04:002012-08-20T11:51:53.941-04:00The difference with the NFL is that it's been ...The difference with the NFL is that it's been demonstrated that turning a bad team into a good one can be done very quickly without going on a big spending spree. It's also the case that there's a lot of randomness in the NFL because the seasons are so short--a team that's generally thought of as "good" can go something like 6-10 with a little bad luck, but good major league teams simply don't ever win just 70 games.<br /><br />The problem with the column in The Cleveland Fan is that the Indians' problems are not primarily "small market problems." Even if one accepts the need to trade Sabathia and Lee (and I certainly don't in the case of Lee, whose contract was not excessive even for this market), getting minimal value out of those trades is all on the front office. And the failure to develop any kind of offense at the positions where finding talent should be easiest (left field and first base) can likewise not be explained by the size of the market. Joey Votto plays in Cincinnati.<br /><br />There's a significant difference between the failure of the 2003-04 rebuild, which produced two big winning seasons amidst a lot of underachieving; and the current rebuild, which has yet to give us a single season with more than 80 wins. It's not that hard to see the Indians having a winning season next year even with a similar cast--a return to form for Masterson and Jimenez wouldn't be any more unlikely than Cliff Lee's 2008 turnaround--but I wouldn't bet on it right now. Antonetti and Shapiro blew it and need to go. The front office needs new blood.Hydehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03984348525069741897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11805401.post-83044187663251746352012-08-19T09:34:17.824-04:002012-08-19T09:34:17.824-04:00Not closing on Cespedes or Willingham can also be ...Not closing on Cespedes or Willingham can also be thrown onto the pile of 2012 gaffes.<br /><br />So where do you stand, Hyde? Should we blow up management, the team, both, or continue with business as usual?<br /><br />I do not think that the Tribe has BAD management (Assuming 2011-2012 is their basement performance), but at this moment, it seems closer to average than good. <br /><br />It is interesting to compare the NFL's strategy when it comes to management vs MLB's. In the NFL, if you do not have things going in the right direction in 3 years (Sometimes less for poorly ran teams like the Browns), it is very likely that you will be fired, and the entire management situation will be rebooted. In MLB, it seems VERY uncommon to have a management group (Only talking GM and executives here, not actual baseball managers) last less than 5-8 years.<br /><br />While most of the difference is probably linked to the dynamics of each sport's drafts (3-5 years to have a not fully developed player to reach the majors after being drafted in the MLB), it makes you wonder about how you can accurately grade a management group in an environment with so many inaccuracies. Look at today's piece on the draft, and some of the "Good" management groups performance for the 2008 draft. The sport is a crapshoot.<br /><br />If you haven't read it already, check out Adam Burke's piece on WAR, and how it relates to Acta and the Tribe. The only way to guarantee a consistent winner (not necessarily a playoff winner mind you) is to outspend your competition by a very significant margin. I don't see that happening any time soon in Cleveland, especially not with the way that the economics have been set up in MLB.<br /><br />http://www.theclevelandfan.com/cleveland-indians/5-indians-archive/9990-view-from-the-porch-did-manny-acta-declare-warSpillshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08413824903442574052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11805401.post-68185789810766495242012-08-18T01:24:30.079-04:002012-08-18T01:24:30.079-04:00@Spills: The problem, or at least one of them, is ...@Spills: The problem, or at least one of them, is that the Indians aren't even doing smart things that fall within a typical Dolan budget. Here's another "for example:" what if we had outbid the Red Sox for Cody Ross, whose righthanded bat would look terrific in the middle of our lineup, and who has a track record of performing in the clutch? He could have been ours for less than we're paying Sizemore to be the baseball version of Greg Oden.<br /><br />An organization that isn't in the market for major free agents has to be creative. It has to be smarter than the other guys. It's not enough to have a Blake-for-Santana steal twice a decade--they have to outwit the other teams consistently, and take advantage of the big leveler in the sport, the draft. The Indians are failing at all of this. Hydehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03984348525069741897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11805401.post-33741149840232449542012-08-17T13:49:39.340-04:002012-08-17T13:49:39.340-04:00I was optimistic about the pitching until I (thank...I was optimistic about the pitching until I (thanks to LGT) became worried the Little Cowboy might be going under the TJ knife soon.MTFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14410882434875111748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11805401.post-9684294272005222732012-08-16T23:05:19.226-04:002012-08-16T23:05:19.226-04:001. "El Klubercabra".
2. I'm very, v...1. "El Klubercabra".<br /><br />2. I'm very, very mildly optimistic about the pitching next season, if only because literally anything would be an improvement. This is the worst non-Coors Field staff in baseball, and they're irrefutably uninspiring, but they're not THAT bad.<br /><br />I remain optimistic about Blue Jeans Gomez -- say what you will, he's stayed healthy and got his reps in -- and McFarland and House have had some intriguing seasons, to say nothing of getting CarCar and Fauxberto back. Again, it ain't pretty, but squint and you can see league average. Coupled with solid relief, it might do.<br /><br />3. It's the bats that worry me. Chisenhall staying on the field should help; Kipnis and Brantley have made some good strides; Choo is, happily, Choo. And Santana and Cabrera can be productive, if not stunning as we hoped.<br /><br />That's half a lineup, and it's still horrifically susceptible to left-handed pitching. I'm not convinced there's an answer. That's the argument for blowing it up, anyway. That, and my need for catharsis.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12645578572957938828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11805401.post-61200200439165396642012-08-16T20:14:02.106-04:002012-08-16T20:14:02.106-04:00So I was about to come on here and preach that the...So I was about to come on here and preach that the Tribe should go out and grab a top-5 free agent, because this is one of the few chances they may have left to be the cream of the town with what would seem to be the upward projections of the Browns and Cavs. Then I looked at the potential free-agents, and while my knowledge of baseball outside of the NE Ohio has fallen off a cliff over the past few years, I could not come up with a top 5. <br /><br />I mean... Greinke? Sure on paper, makes a lot of sense as a clutch addition. But, I get the feeling that he is going to disappoint whatever team goes all in after the guy. Maybe Josh Hamilton? Again, not exactly the type of guy a small market should be making a run at. I'd have preferred Fielder this past year. David Wright would seem to make a lot of sense, but he has a club option for $16 mill for a NY team. Maybe they decide he's not worth the cash, but it would seem silly to just drop the guy for a $1 mill buyout. <br /><br />I think that I have hit the Apathy stage. I wonder how the Brownies are doing tonight...Spillshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08413824903442574052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11805401.post-44949612544455263512012-08-16T15:53:55.493-04:002012-08-16T15:53:55.493-04:00Thought you were going end with
"WHAT IF?&qu...Thought you were going end with<br /><br />"WHAT IF?"<br /><br />The PR firm that got paid for that should not get an extension.doby14https://www.blogger.com/profile/03474808008757111430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11805401.post-47704002159778479932012-08-16T13:06:20.158-04:002012-08-16T13:06:20.158-04:00There is a nickname for Kluber here, I can feel it...There is a nickname for Kluber here, I can feel it. Something grief-related. Something to do with mortality. 5 Innings of Grief? The 5 Stages of Kluber Relief? Corey "Acceptance" Kluber? Grieving Corey Kluber? Corey Sixth Stage? Or should we limit ourselves to smartass comments about how the fifth stage of Kluber pitching is a home run trot by the batter?CLohsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10640058765124455620noreply@blogger.com