Mitch Talbot

Published: 28 minutes ago Tweet Lewie Pollis Cleveland Indians Featured Columnist RANT It! Rick Osentoski-US PRESSWIRE With Josh Tomlin now shut down for the rest of the season, someone had to take his place in the rotation for his scheduled start Saturday. Apparently, that someone is Mitch Talbot . Talbot, 27, had a rough start to the 2011 season, going 2-6 with a 6.33 ERA in 11 outings (to be fair, it was a...Read Full Story

By The Common Man Due to his wonky elbow, Mitch Talbot has only had two starts, and has thus not contributed much to the Indians’ suprising success in 2011. But, when healthy, he’s a very usable mid-rotation starter who will easily push Jeannmar Gomez back to the minors or the bullpen, where he’ll do much less damage. Having a healthy Talbot is going to be essential if Cleveland is going to hold on to its early division lead. Talbot is the last in a long line of Indians acquisitions that are...Read Full Story

Tweet Mitch Talbot was born in October of 1983; he won’t turn 28 until after this season is over.  I suppose it might be safe to say that he doesn’t remember Ronald Reagan or Rubik’s cubes or mix tapes or the USSR. Interestingly, his October birthday also makes him the oldest pitcher in our rotation, and worthy of some attention due to the pipeline we’ve tried to fill with pitching prospects over the last several years.  After all, the hope is that someone like Drew Pomeranz or Alex White...Read Full Story

Tweet If you’re one of those people who believes that a team should communicate injury information clearly and quickly, I would wager you’re not a big fan of the Indians’ PR department.  It seems to be the rule rather than the exception that there will be obfuscation, delay and some good old fashioned hemming and hawing before you ever actually figure out what’s going on with a player’s injury situation. We saw it with Hafner’s “tired” shoulder.  We saw it in the weeks leading up to Jake...Read Full Story

Tweet “The Itch” has been shelved. We touched on it earlier today, but the end of the Mitch Talbot era in the rotation didn’t come as we expected. Instead, he was granted a stay of execution The much maligned right-hander has been placed on the 15-day DL with a lower back strain. Mysterious, considering the fact that Talbot is out of options and has been pitching as if he doesn’t want to be on this roster. Regardless, the lower back problem has flared up at the right time for him and...Read Full Story