Scott Lewis, two others removed from 40-man roster

Gosling, Romero, and Scott Lewis were outrighted. Click the link for more details.

over 2 years ago Toxicadam 35 comments 0 recs |

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Meanwhile, Noah Lowry is about to become a free agent. He’s missed a lot of time with injury and has been just above league average (IN). So, that’s our guy, right?

Steel Nick

by nickjs21 on Oct 30, 2009 8:27 PM EDT reply actions

That walk to K is ugly.

by afh4 on Oct 30, 2009 8:38 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions

That’s our guy.

by DixonCayne on Oct 30, 2009 8:56 PM EDT up reply actions

Not really. We sometimes take guys with bad walk rates in the hopes we can help them improve their command, but as a rule, it’s always guys who also have high K rates. Lowry has neither the K% nor the GB%, so I don’t see him as much of a target for us.

Adam?

by Jay on Oct 30, 2009 9:04 PM EDT up reply actions

Soft-tossing lefty with occasional control/strike-out issues and coming off extended injury?…sounds like our kind of guy.

More seriously, I wouldn’t be surprised if he is a guy the team looks at but only considers if they get positive feedback from their scouts. He doesn’t seem altogether different in his attractiveness than Pavano was coming into this season.

by APV on Oct 30, 2009 9:33 PM EDT up reply actions

Lowry’s 3.78 ERA for (THE) Giants in 2007 is misleading; his FIP was 4.89.

Yeah, I researched that whole thing to use one word.

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by westbrook on Oct 30, 2009 8:57 PM EDT up reply actions

If we don’t pick him up, will he throw a no-hitter in the (NL) next year?

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by USSChoo on Oct 30, 2009 9:14 PM EDT up reply actions

If he did it, it would obviously take place with Joe (WEST) behind the plate.

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by westbrook on Oct 30, 2009 9:15 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs

Very nice.

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by ClemsonGirl on Oct 30, 2009 10:56 PM EDT up reply actions

Honestly, is there any reason to hope the Indians keep Reyes?

Before the season when people were saying he’d be in the rotation all year, I said to my friends “he gets 10 starts max this year.” He had 8. His start total the past 4 years: 17, 20, 6 (but 10 games as a reliever), 8. He can’t make it through the season as a starter.

If Reyes has a future in the majors, it’s as a set-up man/closer.

by lenred on Oct 30, 2009 9:08 PM EDT reply actions

set-up man/closer

sign me up.

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by westbrook on Oct 30, 2009 9:16 PM EDT up reply actions

His start total the past 4 years: 17, 20, 6 (but 10 games as a reliever), 8.

No. He spent a lot of those seasons in the minors.

His real start totals the past four seasons: 30, 26, 19 (+10 games in relief), 8.

This is a rather different picture. He basically pitched full seasons prior to last year, missing only a month or so if that.

by Jay on Oct 30, 2009 9:20 PM EDT up reply actions

I was only looking at his starts in the majors.

by lenred on Oct 31, 2009 11:39 AM EDT up reply actions

And he’s had arm problems (at least elbow problems) for the past 2 years. I don’t know the track record of players that have elbow problems their 3rd year in the majors, but I don’t believe they have long, illustrious careers as starters.

by lenred on Oct 31, 2009 11:40 AM EDT up reply actions

But that’s a woefully incomplete picture.

by Voltaire on Oct 31, 2009 4:36 PM EDT up reply actions

Yes, but that’s the wrong thing to do when suggesting that his low start totals are evidence to his inability to last as a starter.

Steel Nick

by nickjs21 on Oct 31, 2009 4:40 PM EDT up reply actions

I assume this means that Lewis’s setbacks were just too much and the team didn’t feel his stuff has held up. Too bad. He seemed like a guy who worked hard to come back from TJ in college and make the majors, just in time to get hurt again.

by APV on Oct 30, 2009 9:34 PM EDT reply actions

Either that, or they figured that the time to sneak him through waivers was now so he could spend the season in Columbus getting back into pitching shape. It might also mean that they fear not getting a key player through Rule 5.

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by woodsmeister on Oct 30, 2009 9:44 PM EDT up reply actions

The saddest line from the Indians.com coverage:

Gosling made 15 appearances out of the Indians’ bullpen this year, and Romero was a September callup who appeared in 10 games.

by brookjacoby on Oct 30, 2009 10:00 PM EDT reply actions

Thanks for fixing my clumsy title.

by Toxicadam on Oct 30, 2009 10:19 PM EDT reply actions

What happened with Lewis? Was the injury that bad? I mean I don’t love the guy but he’s a lot more useful than Reyes at least, not that that’s saying much.

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by Joe. on Oct 30, 2009 11:31 PM EDT reply actions

27 innings this season, 121 innings the year before.

How useful is this, exactly?

by Jay on Oct 30, 2009 11:40 PM EDT up reply actions

He doesn’t have one above average pitch. Not one. Sample size or not, he sucks.

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by Joe. on Oct 30, 2009 11:49 PM EDT up reply actions

Who, Reyes?

by Jay on Oct 31, 2009 12:10 AM EDT up reply actions

Hai.

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by Joe. on Oct 31, 2009 12:21 AM EDT up reply actions

And yet …

by Jay on Oct 31, 2009 12:30 AM EDT up reply actions

I wish I understood.

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by Joe. on Oct 31, 2009 12:36 AM EDT up reply actions

Tribe would have loved to have David Aardsma this year.

by plato on Oct 31, 2009 12:57 AM EDT up reply actions

38 saves. He finally pitched like everyone said he could.

by odradek on Oct 31, 2009 1:05 AM EDT up reply actions

I think it’s partly the injuries, in that most teams aren’t willing at this time of the year to make a waiver claim on a pitcher with a history of arm injuries. I would think that Lewis would remain with the organization on a minor-league deal.

by Ryan on Oct 31, 2009 12:31 AM EDT up reply actions

Probably, but he has to make it through Rule 5 first.

by Jay on Oct 31, 2009 12:47 AM EDT up reply actions

True.

by Ryan on Oct 31, 2009 12:48 AM EDT up reply actions

I doubt he would be selected. The injury is a big problem but it would seem him “stuff” is not exactly bullpen material.

by gte619n on Nov 1, 2009 12:34 PM EST up reply actions

The injury is not necessarily a problem for Rule 5, since it actually can be used as a roster-rule workaround. It’s more of a question of, do you want to take up roster room for a guy who might be on and off the DL all season, is it even worth the hassle?

by Jay on Nov 1, 2009 3:38 PM EST up reply actions

A starting pitcher that is supposedly healthy with injury concerns could just slip through rule 5. I just question this move until I see who ends up on the 40.

Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic. - Robert S. Wieder

by jerseywahoo on Oct 31, 2009 11:40 PM EDT reply actions