Shin-Soo Choo is an outfielder in major league baseball. He's a right fielder for the Cleveland Indians and wears number 16. He is managed by Eric Wedge.
It’s team awards time, folks. And while the Indians were not represented amongst the MVP or Cy Young voting this season, Shin-Soo Choo and Jamey Carroll took home team-related awards of their own this past weekend. Per the Associated Press:
Indians outfielder Shin-Soo Choo, one of the few bright spots in Cleveland’s worst season in nearly two decades, was named Man of the Year for 2009 by Cleveland’s chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America. Choo batted .300 with 20... Read Full Story
Michael Cuddyer's tying three-run homer rescued the Minnesota Twins in the eighth inning, ruining a fine start for Cleveland by Jeremy Sowers in a 6-3 victory over the Indians on Monday night. Sowers stymied the Twins with his jerky left-handed delivery and left with a 3-0 lead after seven innings. Reliever Tony Sipp let the first two batters reach base in the eighth, though, the first coming on an error by shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera. Indians manager Eric Wedge summoned the right-handed... Read Full Story
Cleveland Indians out fielder Shin-Soo Choo was 0-for-4 with three strikeouts when he came up to the plate with two on and none out in the 10th inning last night against the Kansas City Royals . "When I got in the batter’s box, I thought they would want me to bunt, but I appreciated they let me hit away," he said. "I saw the birds. I’ve seen them for weeks and been worried maybe 200 of them would be flying and one would get hit when I was trying to field a ball. Then what would I do?" You'd... Read Full Story
Cliff Lee won for the first time in more than a month, allowing one run in his second complete game of the season for a 4-1 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Thursday night. Lee (5-9) hadn't won since a three-hit shutout against St. Louis on June 14, a game in which he took a no-hitter into the eighth inning. The reigning AL Cy Young Award winner had lost three straight starts, thanks mostly to a lack of run support. The Indians have scored three runs or less in 11 of Lee's 20 starts... Read Full Story
Shin-Soo Choo homered twice and drove in a career-high seven runs to lead the Cleveland Indians to a 15-3 victory over the Oakland Athletics on Friday night, snapping their five-game losing streak. Choo had an RBI single, two-run double, three-run homer and capped his night with a solo shot, his 12th. It was Choo's second career multihomer game and the most RBIs by a Cleveland player since Grady Sizemore drove in seven Aug. 21 against Kansas City. Cleveland, with the worst record in the AL... Read Full Story
Shin-Soo Choo got the job done again — this time without any avian assistance. A day after his winning hit glanced off a gull in the outfield, Choo drove in three runs for the Indians to help rookie David Huff get his second big league win in Cleveland's 7-3 win Friday night over the St. Louis Cardinals. Huff (2-2), making his sixth major league start, gave up a leadoff homer to Albert Pujols in the fourth and left with one out in the eighth after allowing three runs. Joel Pineiro (5-7... Read Full Story
Opening day, evening and night. For their first home game, the Cleveland Indians played what felt like a tripleheader. They lost all three. Marco Scutaro's bloop RBI single brought home the go-ahead run in Toronto's six-run eighth inning and the Blue Jays overcame a bullpen meltdown following a nearly four-hour rain delay for a 13-7 win over the Indians, who are 0-4 for the first time since 1985. Alex Rios and Adam Lind had four RBIs apiece for the Blue Jays. Brandon League (1-0) got the... Read Full Story
(I will try to add a new sleeper every couple of days until the season starts, and will also be coming out with a draft strategy later this week)
Shin-Soo Choo – Choo enters the 2009 season as the starter in RF for the Indians. Tommy John surgery kept him out of the lineup until May last season. All he did from May on was hit .309 with 14 HR’s, and 66 RBI. More impressive was how Choo finished the season. He batted .343 with 11Hr’s and 48 RBI in the second half and... Read Full Story
Mike Jacobs and Mark Teahen hit back-to-back home runs off Indians closer Kerry Wood and Willie Bloomquist capped the four-run ninth inning with a game-winning sacrifice fly as the Kansas City Royals beat Cleveland 6-5 on Tuesday night. David DeJesus tripled to score pinch-runner Mitch Maier and tie it at 5 after the home runs. Bloomquist's flyball to right scored DeJesus. Wood (1-2) blew a three-run lead after starter Cliff Lee had pitched eight effective innings. The Indians' bullpen has... Read Full Story
Carl Pavano pitched his third strong game in three weeks, Victor Martinez homered and drove in four runs and the Cleveland Indians ended the Boston Red Sox nine-game home winning streak with a 9-2 victory Wednesday night. The right-hander allowed two runs in six innings and lowered his ERA in his last four games to 3.75. It was 16.71 after his other two starts. Pavano (2-3) allowed both runs in the second. Cleveland made it 2-1 on Asdrubal Cabrera's RBI single in the third before scoring... Read Full Story
