Cleaning out the inbox

Time to clean out the inbox and we'll start with Eleven Warriors and their look at Kyle Snyder,the Ohio State junior,who became the youngest United State wrestler to ever win Olympic gold.
The in-depth article on Snyder was written just before he won the gold and goes into Snyder's high school and international background.
Eleven Warriors might be best known as a OSU football site,but it is so much more than that in its Buckeye coverage....

New Jersey.com writes an article about the giving side of Yankee prospect Clint Frazier.
Frazier,who was the painful part for me to lose in the Indians acquisition of Andrew Miller.
I was really impressed with my own small interaction with Clint last year in Frederick,but this article shows so much more from the young man.
I don't want to spoil the article,but this is the type of player that doesn't come along every day and if the Indians don't kick the door with Miller in the next two seasons,they might regret that trade for a long time-No matter how well Andrew Miller pitches,,,,

I've written before about journeyman players from the seventies that I rooted for and had no other reason than a baseball card,name or picture in a magazine,
One of those was righthanded pitcher Lynn McGlothen,who had a few good seasons,but enjoyed an average career before dying in a fire in 1984.
Bruce Markusen selected McGlothen as the topic of his latest Card Corner and covers his tragic death along with his various stops in baseball.
The card that I liked of McGlothen's was his 1976 Topps card with his huge smile hanging around the batting cage in what looks to be Shea Stadium.

Joe Plum found this note in Popular Science with a fisherman
that found a 75 pound pearl inside a giant clam over a decade ago and hid it away until then.
Pearls are usually found in oysters not clams,but clams are capable of making pearls in some situations....

I wrap with a note from Battlin' Bob,who doesn't appear here as much as he used to,but still possesses a sharp wit and some of the funnier Facebook posts around.
The Battler found this link from his hometown of Butler PA on Charlie a 55 year old Amazon parrot that hatched in the Butler Woolworth's and then was the store mascot for 35 years before the store closed.
Charlie is still living in a private home and still has very few physical issues.

Coming soon will be the start of the Appalachian League recap!!

Indians land Andrew Miller,lose Lucroy

The Cleveland Indians landed the best available reliever at a steep price as the Indians traded four prospects to the New York Yankees in exchange for power armed lefthander Andrew Miller...

If you have been with me almost from day one,you may remember me grumbling about the Pirates not taking Miller all those years ago because they did not want to pay his bonus demands back in the Dave Littlefield days (bleech).

Miller has posted numbers of 6-1 with an ERA of 1.39 this season and if it were me,I would install Miller as the closer and use Cody Allen as the setup man,but that might not be what the Indians decide as Miller is comfortable in either role.
Anytime that you can add a pitcher of the ability of Miller,especially when you consider that the Indians will have Miller signed through the 2018 season.

The cost was steep as Clint Frazier,Justus Sheffield,Ben Heller and JP Feyereisen were shipped to New York.
The biggest loss was Clint Frazier,who was the best prospect in the system as I have him rated above Bradley Zimmer of the outfield prospects for the team.
Frazier had the potential to be the power bat that the Indians have not produced in years and is the main reason that I am not dancing around the room about the trade.
Frazier had recently been promoted to AAA after a .273/13/48 with 13 steals line at AA Akron and has the potential to be a five tool player.
I hope I don't look back at this part of losing Frazier in dismay.

I covered Justus Sheffield in the coverage of the Jonathan Lucroy non-trade,but the other two arms are interesting with hard throwing Ben Heller and JP Feyereisen.
Heller was been clocked at 100 MPH and hitters have batted under .200 against him this season as the closer for AA Akron and AAA Columbus,so this is a player that could be a key cog in the Yankee bullpen as soon as 2017.
Feyereisen posted an ERA of 2.23 at AA Akron as the setup man for Heller and then the closing role after the promotion of Heller.

This could be a deal that works for both teams,but I really like the Yankees return for Miller.

Jonathan Lucroy used his trade option to reject a trade to the Indians,so the players mentioned in the Lucroy post are still the property of the Indians.
Players have the right to use these options as they earned the right to place in a contract,but Lucroy wanted a very affordable option (5.5 million) to be bought out at season's end,which made him a two month rental.
Considering all that,the Indians were very smart to pass on surrendering that option and I have no problem with Cleveland not wanting to give up that control.

Lots of trades today and I will try to be back later tonight with another Cleveland trade,TWO from the Giants and one from the Pirates....