Hafner/Sizemore, the Tribe's Old Fogies

by talonk on Aug 4, 2010 6:09 PM EDT

Since I’ve been AWOL for the past two months, not sure if this has been addressed yet, but with the recent trade deadline deals, this roster has very little seniority left.

Firstly, although a lot of players have left via trade this season, we will have a hard time reaching the record number of Indian debuts, which was 31 players in 2002 (not counting the 35 used in the debut year of 1901). Heck, we’ll have a hard time matching the 27 Indian debuts from last year, as we are only at 16 debuts this year, and no more trades look to be on the horizon come the Aug 31 deadline.

Anyways, back to the original topic, seniority. With the deals, do you realize that with Westbrook and Peralta gone, this slides Any Marte (!!!!) to number 6 and Trevor Crowe(!@#$) to number 11 in seniority with the Tribe? Egads, the horrors.

Here are the Top 15 as of yesterday:

Hafner 3/31/03

Sizemore 7/21/04

Carmona 4/15/06

R Perez 4/20/06

Choo 7/28/06 (batted eighth)

Marte 7/28/06 (batted ninth)

J Lewis 7/16/07

Laffey 8/4/07

A Cabrera 8/08/07

Joe Smith 4/8/09

Crowe 4/9/09

Sipp 4/22/09

LaPorta 5/3/09 (batted eighth)

Valbuena 5/3/09 (batted ninth)

Huff 5/17/09

So as you can see, only 6 players have been with the Tribe for five or more seasons, with the bulk of the roster debuting in 2009/2010.

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And CC does not know any of them

by stuart dean on Aug 5, 2010 3:45 PM EDT reply actions 3 recs

Choo and Marte had the same debut date! DESTINY!

by westbrook on Aug 5, 2010 4:28 PM EDT reply actions

“The future is tonight!” — from the archives.

Game Thread — which back then evidently meant three hours hanging out with Andrew, indiansfan and palcal.

by Jay on Aug 5, 2010 4:37 PM EDT up reply actions

A couple reactions to the first link:

Unnecessarily Sowersian.

You called him BLC in 2006!

You saw him pitch in person?

by westbrook on Aug 5, 2010 6:19 PM EDT up reply actions

And the second one:

Tough night for Marte so far…just misses the home run then cracks one right at Beltre.

Oh Andrew, you had noo idea.

Again, unnecessarily Sowersian.

by westbrook on Aug 5, 2010 6:23 PM EDT up reply actions

I was at that game. I can’t believe that was four years ago already.

I had forgotten that was Andy’s debut. I formed a favorable impression of him then as I watched him hit a scorched line drive foul. It was very nearly a home run. Hollandsworth made a perfect throw from LF to gun down Ichiro. Sowers pitched a beauty. He was on a roll then. Two guys gave us their tickets on their way out, and we were able to move down to a seat right behind the 1B dugout. It was a perfect evening.

by jhon on Aug 5, 2010 7:13 PM EDT up reply actions