Indians Beat Angels while Talking Kendrick for Cliff Lee Trade

normally Im on your side………but tonight……no bueno, just not your night buddy

Sick of watching this guy struggle through every inning.

Go away.

5 innings!!!
i mean u know we have a shitty bullpen

Love you Howie, but DO IT.

and Fuentes may usually be rock solid, but you can’t come into the game with a 2 run lead, record no outs, and swap the leads.

All failure on the 9th inning blow-a-thon.

Bring back Torii.

he’s been doing great for us

but saunders has just been struggling and nothing new here today

he does his job… no need for Fuentes.

Your still the best but you pitched like a man with no arms.

I would rather loose a game with only one or two guys blowing it then watch the whole team struggle. we’ll be fine

Dude doesn’t mess around when he blows a save. Not the garden variety 1 run blown lead, this guy shits the bed when he has a bad night and it leads to a L.

At least frankie had the decency to keep it tied when he blew one.

Hoping Kendrick is an Angel still.

Just wondering…

for shitting on the W

Texas won, we’re in a close race, and we get a 2 run 9th inning lead on a shitty team, and we can’t hold it. Just awful, awful, awful stuff. This is the kind of loss that feels like it can really cool down a team that is coming off a hot streak…a win would have tempered yesterday’s loss as being a bounce-back. A loss makes it seem like a potential trend. It really hurts.

And fuck any trade involving Kendrick. He’s finally back, and I don’t have faith in Cliff Lee keeping this charade up.

Send Sando down and call up O’Sullivan ASAP Sosh!

Everytime he goes out chances are he is going to get shelled. There is just no way he can be kept in the rotation pitching like this can there?

Fuentes fault…. he’s a closer, he is responsible for 3 outs. I know its easier said then done, but 3 outs is alot less to ask from a guy then to ask him to go 6-7 innings.

I would be willing to promote O’Sullivan to #5 and replace Sando and Ervin with Lee.

missed it, but kinda glad i did. Fuentesaurus had a rough game…

On the Lee front – i’d try for a 3-for-1 swap…
Lee for Kendrick, Reckling and one of Walden/Bell/Smith/just about any other pitcher not named O’Sullivan.

If we had to, I’d throw in one more low prospect, but not another pitcher.

every team will eventually have a game like this… just thank god this hasn’t been a usual occurrence like it was in the beginning of the year… I will be at the game tomorrow and I have a feeling that they will bounce back like they have done plenty of times before.

On a lighter note… anybody got advice for some 80’s gear for tomorrow… I was born in 88 so i kinda missed out on that whole decade

O ya, and I am a fan of HK for Lee, I’d say throw in another mid-level prospect, maybe a good/great AA guy, and see if CLE bites

One more thing…
Go Halos!

its Kazmir,Lee,and halladay Angels are looking for. here are trade samples Saunders for Halladay,Santana for Kazmir,o’Sullivan for Lee are rotation would look like this
1.lackey,2.Halladay,3.Weaver4.Kazmir,5.lee.Thats an Awesome rotation + good arms.

Posted by: Angelsfan451 | July 28, 2009 at 12:04 AM

quite possibly the stupidest trade proposals I have ever heard, these trades would cost at least 10 players. you cant run a MLB team like its damn video game…

Wow! He made two amazing plays.

Is there a source for this idea? The Indians already have a solid 2B/SS in Asdrubal Cabrera (.302 / .358 / .424 at age 23). Kendrick is probably a step back from that. They want a real shortstop or a third baseman. Maybe it makes more sense that Kendrick was on the bench because Scioscia wanted to go with the hot-hitting switch hitters against the righty Pavano? If a trade was up in the air, the Indians also might wanted to have, you know, have a chance to scout him.

The Angels starting pitching right now is a whole lot of ugly. Cliff Lee isn’t going to help that much. He’d get 11 or 12 starts in before the end of the year. Those are starts that would have been taken by Palmer or O’Sullivan. However, the Angels are 15-3 when one of those two guys starts, not because either of them are particularly good pitchers, but because the team scores a lot of runs. The point is, the Angels have a decent chance of winning at least half of those remaining 11-12 games already. How much better would they do with Cliff Lee?

The problem is with Saunders and Santana. These guys are supposed to be the core of the rotation, so Mike Scioscia doesn’t have a choice besides sending them out to get shelled. If they aren’t hurt you can’t do anything besides send them back to Salt Lake, but then who’s going to pitch? The team doesn’t have the flexibility to swap guys out of their spots in the rotation like they have with the #5 position. They have nothing committed to guys like Palmer, Loux, O’Sullivan, or Ortega, they’ve just been moving them in and out and going with what works at that point in time. But with Joe and Ervin all that Scioscia and Butcher can do is hope they do better next time. Cliff Lee won’t solve that problem. They need to get some production from the guys they’re already depending on and winning in spite of (except the last two games).

Was it explained anywhere why he threw nothing but fastballs?

I thought for sure that Kendrick would pinch-hit for Willits in the ninth last night after Gary doubled. He didn’t. Why? It makes no sense unless they are talking the trade-talk.

another solid effort by Kevin Jepsen, who got the four most important outs of the game. Inherited two runners from Oliver and got out of the inning. Then he pitched a shaky 8th, getting out of a 1st and 3rd, 1-out jam. That guy’s got great stuff.

Scioscia for leaving Willits in to bat in the ninth. Ugh.