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Indians sign fourth-round pick

Looking for some positive news about the Tribe? Yeah, me, too.

Here's a morsel.

Baseball America is reporting that the Indians have signed fourth-round pick (#137 overall) T.J. McFarland, LHP out of Illinois. They say he got $285,000. Slot would have dictated $189,000. Here's a link to the BA blog following developments on the brink of the deadline for signing 2007 draftees.

http://www.baseballamerica.com/blog/draft/

There has been a lot of money thrown around today, but no news as to whether any of it has been cast in the direction of Cole St. Clair, the LHP out of Rice U who fell to the sixth round because of injuries this season.

As for Mr. McFarland, one assumes that he will head for Winter Haven and the Tribe's team in the Gulf Coast League, which is a nice segue to a piece by Tony Lastoria posted on the channel called Swerb's Blurbs, which is also where Steve Buffum is leading the league in gallows humor.

Here's a link to Lastoria's piece, which has some nice pics of Chris Nash, Jason Smits, and others.  http://www.swerbsblurbs.com/article_detail.php?id=2128

My personal favorite is RHP Santo Frias, who clearly has been endowed by his Creator with the Fausto Carmona Starter Kit, and who has pitched well since his recent promotion to Lake County.

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Re: Indians sign fourth-round pick
Good video on frias. But most importantly, how are the man's teeth?
As General Manager of this team, I demand to know when I'm getting a start.

by bigbrabbs on Aug 16, 2007 10:19 AM EDT   0 recs

Re: Indians sign fourth-round pick
Yep, I immediately thought of Fausto when I saw the Frias vid. He has kind of a strange delivery tho, doesn't he?

Also, as far as can tell, the Tribe was unable to sign St.Clair (#7) and Matt Hague (11?) who both were in my top 3 left to sign, after TJ. The other, lefty prep pitcher Chris Jones (15) signed for $350K apparently.

by mcrose on Aug 16, 2007 1:37 PM EDT   0 recs

Re: How are the man's teeth?
Good one, bigbrabbs.

I like Frias's delivery in general, but not the way he falls off to the side in his follow-through.  He's got lots of time to work on it, though.

ken from alexandria

by ken from alexandria on Aug 16, 2007 2:34 PM EDT   0 recs

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