Rain halts Bisons, Concrete halts Snyder

The latest Bisons mishap came hours before the start of Monday night’s scheduled game against the Durham Bulls.|

Herd center fielder Brad Snyder was scratched from the lineup after he smacked his head on a concrete overhang in the clubhouse tunnel, becoming bloodied but not seriously injured.

Snyder was low-bridged when he sprinted full speed through the tunnel leading to the clubhouse.

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"That’s frustrating," manager Torey Lovullo said.

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How small are these minor league stadiums?

by NickFantana on Jun 17, 2008 8:54 AM EDT 0 recs

Makes all those HR totals even less impressive

by APV on Jun 17, 2008 9:01 AM EDT up 1 recs

Marte must have been REALLY bored in AAA to put up those kind of numbers.

Steel Nick

by nickjs21 on Jun 17, 2008 9:16 AM EDT up 0 recs

The real stadium will have to be at least three times this big

by Roger Dorn on Jun 17, 2008 10:46 AM EDT up 0 recs

I figure it can only help.

Snyder actually is a good case for bored-in-the-minors. His numbers dropped repeating Double-A in 2006 and Triple-A this year — but he is down there for his own good, getting the ABs. Based on his 2007 numbers, he’s good enough to be in the majors, but only as a 4th outfielder. A good question would be, why didn’t we trade him in the offseason?

by Jay on Jun 17, 2008 11:14 AM EDT 0 recs

i’m pretty sure I’m on record somewhere saying this. The Indians simply didn’t need to have 5 OFers at the big league level (Michaels, Dellucci, Sizemore, Gutierrez and Blake) in addition to 4 guys repeating at AAA (Francisco, Choo, Snyder, Cooper) who could all be 4th OFers or even partial replacements of the guys in Cleveland. Some of that depth was going to get wasted. Right now, it looks like that waste will include Michaels, Snyder and Cooper.

by APV on Jun 17, 2008 12:17 PM EDT up 0 recs

Cooper may hold the current record for games played in the organization without ever having been called up.

I guess the question I have is, could either Snyder or Cooper be the more useful left-handed bat off the bench than Dellucci? They’d be massively cheaper (though I realize there’s no scenario in which we get rid of DD without eating most of the contract), and I have to imagine both would be better defenders—or plus defenders, in Snyder’s case.

It’s probably irrelevant, but I think Dellucci quietly had the worst May on the team. Which is saying something.

by fleerdon on Jun 17, 2008 3:36 PM EDT up 0 recs