The Indians have announced that they’ve activated Danny Salazar, who will start tonight against the Blue Jays. To clear space on their active roster, they’ve optioned lefty Ryan Merritt to Triple-A Columbus.
Salazar had been out since early June with a sore shoulder. It’s not yet completely clear whose rotation spot he’ll take, although Mike Clevinger, Josh Tomlin and Carlos Carrasco are all penciled in for upcoming starts, and Corey Kluber obviously won’t lose his spot. That could leave Trevor Bauer, who has a disappointing 5.58 ERA this year (albeit with 10.2 K/9 and 3.8 BB/9) as the odd man out for now.
In any case, the return of a healthy Salazar could be a boon to an Indians club that has reportedly looked for starting pitching on the trade market. (They’ve repeatedly been connected to Sonny Gray, although they’re one of a long list of possible A’s trade partners should the Athletics move Gray.) The hard-throwing Salazar was a key to the Indians’ rotations in both 2015 and 2016, with a 3.63 ERA, 9.9 K/9 and 3.2 BB/9 in 322 1/3 innings in that two-year span. He has a 5.40 ERA this season, but with strong peripherals, including a 12.6 K/9, over 55 frames.
Ha, I read Indians Acquire Danny Salazar and was like yes finally another deal then was like wait howd they acquire him from themselves.
Like adding a piece via trade at the deadline. Let’s just hope he pitches to his abilities; he’s got 2 starts before the deadline and if he does well they’ll focus their dealing on other needs.
Only 4 innings in so far but he’s been lights out, hopefully he’s found his old self because it would be like a big trade acquisition.
He gave them 7 near perfect innings, only one hit and 8 Ks over the minimal amount of hitters.
Chewy never should have pulled him. Only 86 pitches, and he owned the Toronto lineup.
Stupid Chewy.
Do you want Salazar to injure his shoulder again? Cleveland had a huge lead and only two innings left. Let Salazar rest his arm for his next start.
Don’t criticize the manager with two world championships and a winning record in Cleveland since he joined.
Stupid Troll
6-man rotation.
When are the Indians going to Stop talking and do something, grab Bruce from the Mets and Hellickson from the Phillies !
I’d rather they do nothing than get Hellickson
Exactly!
A 17mill, avg on good day, fly-ball P is nobodies solution!
Why would they?
7 man pitching rotation why would you not want hellickson anchoring that????
lol
Yeah, he’d be an anchor, alright……..at the bottom of that place known as the money pit.
You must’ve forgot about the deadline last year.
What exactly would the tribe do with those guys? When Chisenhall comes back (team RBI leader), then there are 3 spots and 6 outfielders.
Hellickson is not a big enough upgrade over their existing pieces. They still have to decide what to do with this 6 man rotation.
If anything they need a quality depth middle infielder, a LHRP, or a top of the rotation arm. If the team doesn’t want to stand pat, they should go after guys like Asdrubal Cabrera, Justin Wilson, Sonny Gray, etc.
It’s not necessarily a priority to really make moves to begin with.
On a serious note klentak did say he’d eat hellickson’s deal to maximize his return. Makes absolutely no sense for the Indians still but I don’t think money will be the issue. Hellickson doesn’t improve many contending teams pitching rotations. Maybe the Nats if they wanted a 5th starter for the rest of the year. Hellickson just isn’t very good.
Indians do not need a starter. I’d rather get a decent bench piece than a top starter we don’t really need.