Tom's Blog

As the Indians have moved to the basement of the AL Central and for all intensive purposes done for the season, they are finally doing something off the field.

The first player to be purged was Joe Borowski on Friday which I don't understand why they got him in the first place.  Now, the winner of the CC Sabathia sweepstakes is...the Milwaukee Brewers for three minor leaguers at least one being on outfielder.  One of my questions to Mark Shapario is why make the deal now instead of next week when maybe you could get a pitcher that could help for the rest of the season?  My other question is why another outfielder when you have Francisco, Gutierrez, Sizemore, Choo, and Dellucci who should be shown the door too. 

So, curious minds want to know is who's next?  I have some ideas of who should be purged.  Let's see now...the ones that should go is Andy Marte who should of been charged an error that helped contributed to the latest loss, Jhonny Peralta who has not hit for average this year and really not a good shortstop,  Rafael Bettencourt and Paul Byrd who have been awful this year and David Dellucci who really haven't contributed much anyway. 

One other thought...what if Mark Shapario would of signed Tim Lincecum a few years ago instead of watching him become an All-Star for the Giants?  Or better yet, why has he picked up non-contributers like David Dellucci, Andy Marte instead of pitching help?