Indians scout dies

Saw this and thought it was worth passing along. The Indians have done pretty well in Venezuela. Here is the initial story - link

about 3 years ago APV 13 comments 0 recs |

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So, are the FanShots now automatically tagging “- Let’s Go Tribe” to the end of everything? Cause in this case it really looks out of place.

by NickFantana on Jan 13, 2009 5:23 PM EST reply actions

Looks like it is. I don’t like it either – I’ll put in a request to have it removed.

by Ryan on Jan 13, 2009 6:06 PM EST up reply actions

Woah. Definitely not my doing. Also, re-reading this I realize my point might get misconstrued. I don’t mean this is sad because the Indians might lose out on some good scouting in Venezuela. I mean it is sad Centeno died, he seems to have been a guy who was very good at what he does.

by APV on Jan 13, 2009 6:14 PM EST up reply actions

Thanks for passing along the info, I probably would have missed this otherwise.

Steel Nick

by nickjs21 on Jan 13, 2009 8:27 PM EST up reply actions

It didn’t come across in the wrong way. Thanks for putting this up. Very sad.

"Lotta heart in Cleveland." - Ian Hunter

by Denver Tribe Fan on Jan 14, 2009 12:32 AM EST up reply actions

Hey, it’s fixed. How about your clout?

by NickFantana on Jan 13, 2009 11:28 PM EST up reply actions

Nah, it was the great technical support’s quick response more than any clout I have.

by Ryan on Jan 14, 2009 12:07 AM EST up reply actions

I thought that was just something Andrew was doing, because I saw it first on two of his posts. I wonder what the coders were thinking putting that in there?

by Jay on Jan 14, 2009 1:17 AM EST up reply actions

No, it was hard-wired into the title. I tried removing manually removing the bit that was causing it, but it regenerated.

Ah well, it’s been fixed.

by Ryan on Jan 14, 2009 1:21 AM EST up reply actions

To return to the topic.

Unfortunately it takes a tragedy like this for such an integral part of the Indians organization to make headlines.

by Ryan on Jan 14, 2009 1:34 AM EST reply actions

Okay, direct significance is hard to peg. Shapiro says he was a mentor to scouts throughout the orgnization.

Many Venzuelans are (or were) on the big-league club: Victor, Asdrubal, Gutierrez/Valbuena (both of them), Betancourt, Mujica (plus Barfield, who’s about as Venezuelan as Mastny is Indonesian). I doubt Centeno signed any of them except maybe Mujica, since Victor was signed 12 years ago and the rest of the guys were acquired from other teams. Having said that, his scouting and knowledge of those players probably played a role in our acquiring one or more of them.

His most obvious influence was on the raft of significant, young prospects signed out of Venezuela who played in Kinston this past season: Jeanmar Gomez, Richard Martinez, Niuman Romero, Carlos Rivero, Hector Rondon. That alone is an impressive haul.

by Jay on Jan 14, 2009 2:12 AM EST up reply actions