Comments on: Sometimes, we Like to Make Predictions

By: Jeremy C

Jeremy C — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 02:24:52 +0000

Taking up a roster spot for a part time DH who cant play any position makes absolutely no sense. Each spot is too valuable to take up by that

By: Chris Burnham

Chris Burnham — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:26:57 +0000

It’s a bit of both. Is he a guy that we can trot out everyday? I doubt it. But platooning at DH makes a heck of a lot more sense than some of the platoons we’ve had in recent years.

By: Stephanie Liscio

Stephanie Liscio — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:04:08 +0000

I will freely admit that at times, I am guided more by nostalgia and emotion than I am by logic and reasoning. This is likely one of those times!

By: Jeremy C

Jeremy C — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:37:45 +0000

We still have to go through the contracts that are signed before arbitration

By: Swift

Swift — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:05:06 +0000

Call me dense, but I’m having trouble telling if people are joking about bringing back Thome as a DH.

Assuming they are serious, I think it is a bad idea. We just had Pronk as a has-been DH with back problems that can’t play any other position and you want to pick someone in even worse shape and even older? Thome needs to retire already, and if he hasn’t figured it out, we (The Indians) should not be encouraging his delusions. I love Jimmy, but that ship has long sailed. I’d rather we hired him as a hitting coach than a player, and give some young guy out of AAA a chance at DH.

By: Steve Alex

Steve Alex — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:41:48 +0000

Great PR. Not so great production at 42 with a bad back.

By: Drew

Drew — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 17:24:50 +0000

I am going to equate the possibility of a Thome signing to that of a classic rock band that makes an appearance on the Grammy’s, disappears for awhile and then finally has reunion tour. Come on people, all of you would be pumped! You’d let your freak flag fly like it was 1997!

By: Chris Burnham

Chris Burnham — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 04:42:15 +0000

He might be trying to keep things quiet.

By: Steve Alex

Steve Alex — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 03:19:36 +0000

I think the Indians have had an excellent off-season to date, but I don’t understand how Chris Antonetti can say the team is out of money after only $74 million (which is the projected payroll after arbitration raises plus the Stubbs trade and the Hafner buyout). The local TV deal adds $10 million per year to previous revenue and the network sale brought $230 million right now. We still have no DH. How can you go into the season with no DH?! That’s crazy. You went to all this trouble to improve the team and sign all these guys. Come on. Even the Royals bumped payroll into the 80′s this year, and everyone else in the division is over 100. After that big TV deal, we’re only going from $65 to $74 million? What gives?

By: Chris Burnham

Chris Burnham — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 03:14:28 +0000

Seriously? You are bugged by that?