Wakeup Wahoo: Reyes To Start Friday

I’m also renaming this. Wakeup Wahoo!

Could something be in the works for Paul Byrd? Are they simply pushing him back a start to Saturday? Not positively sure right now, because his scheduled start on Friday is no more. Anthony Reyes will start the game against the Blue Jays Friday Night.

“I’m excited,” Reyes said. “Every time you get a chance to pitch in the big leagues, it’s exciting. I’m going to go up there and show them what I can do, and hopefully I can stay.” (Indians.com)

I’m excited too, for the fact that this is a big time prospect that fell out of favor because of issues with a pitching coach. The potential talent is there and we’ve seen it before. This could be a steal of a pick-up. Oh and as for Matt Ginter and the reason he was placed on the DL, the word is forearm strain.

Speaking of injuries. Asdrubal Cabrera left yesterdays game early after jogging out onto the field and catching a spike in the turf and collapsing to the ground. Droobs is Day to Day with an Ankle Sprain and we’ll see if he’s in the lineup tomorrow. If not Jamey will start a game or two at second, it isn’t expected to be anything DL worthy.

If anything, we got to see Sal Freaking Fasano play first base, somethine he actually has done before. But it was fun to see it. The MAIN reason he had to play first base?

Well because Ryan Garko went and got himself yanked from the game, which made Andy Marte take over as DH, effectively losing their last infield option.

Wedge was pretty disappointed as you can imagine. Garko broke the number one cardinal sin you can break as a player under Wedge. His words were quick and painless to the media, but I’m sure Garko got an earful. Ryan being a good kid realizes what a bonehead he was probably took it like a man and I wouldnt’ be surprised if this turned his year around. He might get benched one more time but who knows, this could be the kick in the ass he needs.

Speaking of Wedge.. The one thing he hates the most other than not hustling is telling Grady Sizemore he won’t be starting. That has happened like maybe 5 times since Grady became a full-time player? I mean seriously it’s like going to the Dentist for him. He only has to do it like twice a year.

Victor Martinez took swings from both sides of the plate yesterday but he won’t be ready for his rehab assignement as first thought. Victor will put in a few more days and probably be sent out after the weekend series in Toronto when the team returns home. That could be a guess though. His elbow might not be ready to go full out, but for the most part, his elbow feels free and easy for the first time in a long time.

“My elbow feels great,” said Martinez. “It’s been a long time since I’ve felt like this. But we still have some work to do.” (Plain Dealer)

Eric Wedge watched Travis Hafner take cuts off a tee from Cleveland via video. As we know, today is Hafner’s next strength test as Lonnie Soloff returns to Cleveland to see how much Hafner has progressed. Let’s hope for some good news.

Josh Barfield ran the bases with Victor Martinez and says he feels close to returning. He’s given his legs a good workout during his time off and could be off on rehab assignment this weekend sometime.

The fan-fallout from yesterdays’ ridiculous loss is in full-force. Call-in shows were probably flooded on the Clevelan Radio stations and it was a popular topic on Bruce Drennen’s show from what little half hour I saw of it. The Cleveland Fan also has some thoughts on it.

I think though, this is a big reason for Mark Shapiro to go out and get a closer with some money. I’m all for spending the dough to bring in a guy who’s done it before. I’d also like to go get another arm like Will Ohman, Dan Wheeler, or bring back Bobby Howry.

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