As Trevor Bauer celebrates his 25th birthday today, here’s the latest news from Cleveland…
- “The calls have stopped since Christmas” on the Indians’ top four starters, Peter Gammons writes in his latest piece for his Gammons Daily website. Corey Kluber, Trevor Bauer and (particularly) Carlos Carrasco and Danny Salazar have been at the center of many trade rumors all offseason long, though it appears that no team is willing to meet the Tribe’s understandably-high asking price. It certainly seem as if the quartet will headline Cleveland’s rotation in 2016, barring a late blockbuster.
- The Indians have interest in Juan Uribe but not at his current asking price, Terry Pluto of the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. Cleveland is also looking at a few veterans, not necessarily Uribe, whose price tags may drop as we get closer to Spring Training.
- Though several teams showed interest in prospects like Clint Frazier, Bradley Zimmer, Rob Kaminsky and others, the Indians decided to keep their top minor leaguers, Baseball America’s Jim Ingraham writes (subscription required).
Always thought that a deal centered around T. Bauer for C. Dickerson between the Indians and Rockies would make a lot of sense for both sides.
Freese on a short term deal makes sense.
I don’t really want Uribe to be honest. I feel we have to let Urshela be the everyday third baseman. If Uribe is about 20lbs or so lighter then I would think about it, but they way he looked the last few years, his production is gonna drop off fairly quickly at his age.
Its a shame the Indians wouldnt make a move for Cespedes, who really would have filled a need for big right handed power, who could handle centerfield.
Really? No team should use Cespedes in CF on a regular basis. The tribe could still use him. They just won’t pay him.
‘Tribe’s understandably-high asking price’
No need to hyphenate here. ‘Understandably’ is the adverb modifying the adjective ‘high.’ When did the US school system stop teaching grammar?’
Were just glad your hear to correct us.
But seriously, hyphens can be tricky. If anything, I believe the real issue wouldn’t be the use of hyphenation in an adverb-adjective combination (see that?!!!), but its application to an adverb that ends in “ly.”
Generally, though, I hope everyone can keep in mind that the writers on this site are their own editors and write in real-time (hmm … didn’t have time to look that one up, but seems it could go either way?). I don’t believe that most, if any, writers — at least, those who aren’t also technical editors or grammar-focused scholars (I did it again!) — are able to throw together flawlessly constructed and executed sentences at all times. Most of the time? Sure. But there’s a huge difference between writing that goes through an editing process — even one as truncated as a daily paper — and what we do here.
That’s not to say it isn’t worth raising/discussing such points, when appropriate. But I don’t find the biting sarcasm to be well placed (dang! did I miss one?).
this reply is so much more considered, intelligent and witty than the comment deserved.
Thanks for the response Jeff. To my mind, there is enough misunderstanding in the world without diluting language. Some of us older folks continue on a crusade to preserve the English language. It just takes a little time and discipline. I understand the pressures of deadlines and ratings. I did not mean to offend. I must have a Dorothy Parker gene somewhere.
It’s all good. I just think there tends to be a misconception in some quarters that “writers” — whether journalists, novelists, non-fiction authors or otherwise — just spit out grammatically flawless work. In reality, there’s a massive, laborious, time-intensive editing process that makes it that way (most of the time; things slip through, too).
I was an editor for the Harvard Law Review many moons ago. We had something like a 12-step editing process (and probably should have had a 12-step process for dealing with the effects of participating in that process). You’d be amazed how many tiny issues you continue to find, from typos to grammatical mistakes, despite many smart and attentive people poring over a text for months.
When you’re cranking out words even while assimilating information and keeping an eye out for breaking news, you don’t have time to consider every fine point of style and are bound to make errors.