Indians Confidential

CLEVELAND, OH — The Cleveland Indians today announced the club has recalled LHP AARON LAFFEY from the AAA Buffalo Bisons. To allow room for Laffey on the Major League roster the Indians optioned OF BRAD SNYDER to AAA Buffalo.

Laffey was the Buffalo opening day starter after being optioned out of spring training on March 24 after competing for a spot in the rotation and won 3 of his 5 starts in Buffalo. At Buffalo he went 3-1 w/a 2.77ERA in 5 starts (26.0IP, 24H, 9R/8ER, 6BB, 20K, 1HR, .238 avg) and over his last 3 starts he was 2-0 w/a 1.20 ERA (15.0IP, 7H, 2R/ER, 4BB, 13K, .127AVG against). He will make his first Major League start of 2008 vs. the New York Yankees tonight. He wears #32. Laffey, the club’s 16th round pick in the 2003 draft, won 4 of his 6 Major League decisions last year and was the organization’s Minor League Pitcher of the Year.

Snyder returns to Buffalo after being recalled yesterday.

Grady Sizemore will not be placed on the DL, at least that is what Eric Wedge said Sunday postgame about the CF who missed the Yankees game due to an ankle injury. Wedge said that he’s hoping Grady will be back tonight for the series finale, and that a day of rest and rehab will do the ankle good. As far as the roster moves for the day goes, the team will officially call up pitcher Aaron Laffey to star the game tonight, and send down OF Brad Snyder, who was up for a whole one day with the Major League team.

Weather could be a factor today and tonight, as a cold front has moved into the area, and right now its about 50 degrees, and it’s been raining since the middle of the night and more rain is expected throughout the day. We’ll see if they can squeeze the game in at its start time of 7:05.

Bit of a shock here, as the Indians sent Jeremy Sowers right back to Buffalo today and called up Brad Snyder, who will make his MLB debut when he gets into a game. Snyder was only hitting .236 in AAA, while I thought Sowers looked pretty good in his 5.1 innings vs the Yankees Saturday. Nevertheless, here is the presser from the Tribe on the move:

CLEVELAND, OH — The Cleveland Indians today announced the club has recalled OF BRAD SNYDER from the AAA Buffalo Bisons. To allow room for Snyder on the Major League roster the Indians optioned LHP JEREMY SOWERS to AAA Buffalo.

Sowers was impressive yesterday (5.1IP, 7H, 3R/ER) in a spot start against the Yankees as the returns to the Buffalo rotation.