Fausto Carmona and the Cleveland Indians have agreed on a four year contract that will pay Carmona $15 million per year.  The deal cold ultimately be worth $48 million dollars if Carmona hits incentives that are listed in the contract.

That’s a lot of money to throw at a young pitcher but the Indians feel he could be the “Ace” if C.C. Sabathia leaves after this season.  Hopefully Carmona will stay healthy and the move will pay off for him and the Indians.

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The Cleveland Indians lost to the Los Angeles Angels on Wednesday afternoon by the score of 9-4.  The Angels connected on four homeruns that scored all nine of their runs, and the Indians were not able to come back and score enough runs to make it a competitive game.

Starting pitcher Paul Byrd got rocked in his three innings.  Byrd gave up five hits and six earned runs including three homeruns.  If he would have kept the ball in the park, he would have fared a lot better.

The Indians bullpen gave up three more runs with two of them being earned.

Jhonny Peralta and Kelly Shoppach hit homeruns for the Indians.  Peralta hit a solo shot in the 6th inning and Shoppach hit a two run shot in the 6th inning as well.

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Travis Hafner hit a two-run homerun in the top of the 9th inning and Jake Westbrook shut down the Los Angeles Angeles as the Cleveland Indians won 4-3 on Tuesday night.  The Indians were down when Hafner took Justin Speier deep with two outs in the 9th inning.

Westbrook rned his first complete game since 2006, giving up six hits over eight innings, striking out four and walking zero.  It was Westbrook’s first win of the 2008 season.

Besides Hafner’s two RBI’s, Asdrubal Cabrera drove in two runs with a single in the 5th inning that scored David Dellucci and Casey Blake.

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It was a back and forth game against the Cleveland Indians and Los Angeles Angels on Monday night.  The Indians battled back in the top of the 9th inning to take a 4-2 lead before Torii Hunter hit a grandslam to give the Angels the lead.  Hunter had given the Angels the lead in the bottom of the 8th inning with a solo homerun as well.

You have to give the Indians credit for scoring three runs in the top of the 9th inning off of Angels closer Francisco Rodriguez.  Victor Martinez doubled Asdrubal Cabrera and then Jhonny Peralta doubled that scored David Dellucci.  Casey Blake then singled and scored Ryan Garko.

Those three runs were not enough however as Hunter hit a walk off granslam off of Joe Borowski who picked up the loss.  Bad time to blow a save for Borowski…

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The Cleveland Indians couldn’t battle their way back after falling behind 5-0 after five inning against the Oakland Athletics on Friday night.  The Indians were shut down by A’s pitcher Justin Duchscherer until he had to leave the game with a bicep injury.

The Indians did make it interesting in the late innings with homeruns by Ryan Garko and Travis Hafner but it still wasn’t enough as the Indians lost 6-3.

Paul Byrd was the losing pitcher after giving up three earned runs in only 4.1 innings of play.  He clearly didn’t have his stuff working for him on Friday night.  Jorge Julio came in after Byrd, and also gave up one earned run.

The Indians are now 2-2 on the season, and will try to get about .500 with a victory over the Athletics on Saturday.

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The Cleveland Indians didn’t provide very much offense today against the Chicago White Sox as they dropped the series finale by the score of 2-1.  John Danks, Octavio Dotel, and Bobby Jenks held the Indians down to only two hits for the game.

The White Sox themselves only needed two hits as they hit two homeruns.  The Indians will need to show that they can provide some more offense in this cold weather to stay atop the division in the month of April.

The Indians will now travel to Oakland to play the Athletics.