Ubaldo Jimenez: All Stories

Fantasy Baseball – The Value Of Average Draft Position

One of the best ways to be prepared for your fantasy draft is to take part in a mock draft. Here, you get an opportunity to test out your lists and see how other people value their players. Even though Matt Kemp didn’t win the NL MVP award, his value has never been higher, as Mock Draft Central currently has his average draft position (ADP) at 1.74. Surprised? I know I was...

Via Rant Sports

| 3 days ago

Ubaldo Jimenez could be difference-maker for Indians this season

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Via SportingNews.com | 4 days ago

Rockies’ age-old question on opening day

DENVER — The Rockies got old fast this offseason. They have become the anti-Hollywood. While society is obsessed with staying young, the Rockies’ projected opening day lineup figures to jump from 28.4 to 32.4 years old. If the players are better, it doesn’t matter if they are older. But the figure paints a clear picture of the Rockies’ striking transformation...

Via All Things Rockies | 5 days ago

Coors Field and BABIP

This morning, the Rockies traded away Jason Hammel, a starter who has posted relatively high BABIPs over most of his career. While his .280 BABIP last year doesn’t look so bad, the distribution of when those hits came (.272 BABIP with bases empty, .291 BABIP with men on, .300 with RISP) – along with the .327 overall mark he posted in the prior two seasons – led...

Via Fangraphs

| 7 days ago

Prospect Pomeranz ready to cash in on potential

Acquired from the Indians in the Ubaldo Jimenez trade, Drew Pomeranz enters the 2012 season healthy and ready to learn from the lessons of last season.

Via mlb.com | 16 days ago

Offseason Spotlight: Mike Rayl and Matt Packer

Mike Rayl (Photo: IPI)I have to confess: I’m a sucker for left-handed pitchers.It has nothing to do with any great disdain for right-handed pitchers or any real reason whatsoever other than the fact I have always loved watching a baseball game when a lefty is thrown on the hill. With the game so right-handed dominated, it is like watching the game through a mirror as everything�...

| 19 days ago

Pressing Questions: The Cleveland Indians

When the Cleveland Indians acquired Ubaldo Jimenez at the deadline last season, they trailed Detroit by just a game and a half in the American League Central. It was an aggressive move, no doubt, as the Tribe sent four prospects to the Rockies, including highly regarded pitchers Drew Pomeranz and Alex White. But the team was within range of the Tigers, so they played to win the flag...

Via Roto Arcade | 19 days ago

Player Profile #139: Ubaldo Jimenez | SP | CLE

What the hell happened to Ubaldo Jimenez last year? He posted a career-high 4.68 ERA and went 6-9 before the Rockies dealt him to Cleveland. That’s right, the Rockies dealt their ace, whom they had under team control through 2014. Despite pitching fairly consistently the last three seasons (in terms of K’s, BB’s and GB%) his ERA has fluctuated from 2.88 to...

Via Baseball Professor

| 24 days ago

Drew Goodman wins Colorado Broadcaster of the Year award

It is becoming the least surprising award in Colorado. On Friday, the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association named Drew Goodman of Root Sports as Colorado Sportscaster of the Year. Goodman will most likely have to build a bigger mantle in his living room to fit the award on it. This is his ninth time winning the award in the past 10 years. It makes for a good time to...

Via Rockies Review

| January 14, 2012

Are We Being Overly Optimistic About the 2012 Indians?

The narrative du jour surrounding the Cleveland Indians is pretty straightforward. A young team that should be getting better. A durable pitching staff with at least two front-end arms. A bullpen built on young talent. A core of position players that seems poised to hit its prime. Even with the glaring hole at first base, it’s pretty easy to squint and see this team winning...

Via Waiting For Next Year | January 13, 2012

Are We Being Overly Optimistic About the 2012 Indians?

| January 13, 2012

A look at the movement of arms

Ubaldo Jimenez (Photo: AP)In the past year we have seen a rash of pitchers with major upside traded with multiple years left of team control. This is either a changing of views or an anomaly. Since Zack Greinke was traded last offseason there have been five such pitchers of note traded. This could go up to six if you include Shawn Marcum, who I am leaving out because he does not...

| January 10, 2012

Have the Colorado Rockies done enough this offseason?

There is no way to sugar coat it. The 2011 Colorado Rockies season was one to forget. A team that was destined to win their first-ever National League West title fell on their faces. They came out of the gate winning 11-out of-13, then proceeded to win just 62 of their next 149 games.Injuries were a huge part of the disappointment. It seemed that almost every Rockie went down with...

Via Rockies Review

| January 03, 2012

Rockies hope additions mesh well with core

The Rockies' goal in 2012 is to find an elusive chemistry mix that went missing in '11. The Rox are undergoing major change, having gone through the rare step (for them) of trading away homegrown talent, such as star pitcher Ubaldo Jimenez last season, and catcher Chris Iannetta and third baseman Ian Stewart this winter.

Via mlb.com | December 30, 2011

WFNY Top 10 Cleveland Stories of 2011: #2 Ohio State Hires Urban Meyer

As the year comes to a close, like we have done the last three years, WFNY will take a look at what we view to be the 10 biggest sports stories affecting our local sports scene. Each day through the rest of the year, we will be counting down from ten to one. We started with #10 – The Colt Concussion, next was #9 -Key Cavalier Wins. We broke down the Baron Davis Trade and talked...

| December 29, 2011

WFNY Top 10 Cleveland Sports Stories of 2011: #4 The Ubaldo Jimenez Trade

As the year comes to a close, like we have done the last three years, WFNY will take a look at what we view to be the 10 biggest sports stories affecting our local sports scene. Each day through the rest of the year, we will be counting down from ten to one. We started with #10 - The Colt Concussion, next was #9 -Key Cavalier Wins. We broke down the Baron Davis Trade and talked...

| December 27, 2011

WFNY Top 10 Cleveland Sports Stories of 2011: #4 The Ubaldo Jimenez Trade

As the year comes to a close, like we have done the last three years, WFNY will take a look at what we view to be the 10 biggest sports stories affecting our local sports scene. Each day through the rest of the year, we will be counting down from ten to one. We started with #10 - The Colt Concussion, next was #9 -Key Cavalier Wins. We broke down the Baron Davis Trade and talked...

Via Waiting For Next Year | December 27, 2011

Indians need to give the fans reason to support them

Larry Dolan and the Indians need to restorefaith in a fan base that does not trust them.(Photo: AP)The clash between the Cleveland Indians and their fans appears to be at an all-time high these days.As fans continue to grow more and more impatient as each day passes this offseason with no significant acquisition being made the anger continues to rise. We have already blown past the...

| December 22, 2011

On Tribe Fans’ Winter of Discontent (And Why It’s Not So Bad)

The Indians off-season has been fairly compelling so far. I say that knowing full-well that there is some anger out there in the Tribeville regarding the front office’s decisions to date. For reasons I’ve discussed before, re-signing Grady for one year seems to me to be an efficient use of $5 million. Derek Lowe comes almost free. The additions of Aaron Cunningham, Jose...

| December 21, 2011

Reaping What You Sow: Cleveland Indians Top 10 Prospects

The Cleveland Indians tried to hold on and win the winnable AL Central, but even after making a mid-season trade for Ubaldo Jimenez, Justin Verlander and the Tigers rolled their division foes on their way to an ALCS exit. One of the more important things the Indians may have done, however, was introduce two top prospects in Jason Kipnis and Lonnie Chisenhall. Kipnis had an excellent�...

Via The Outside Corner

| December 21, 2011

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Reaping What You Sow: Cleveland Indians Top 10 Prospects

Via Bloguin Best | December 21, 2011

Around the Farm: December 20

Fausto CarmonaAround the Farm (ATF) takes a quick look at some of the daily performances by Indians prospects. This is a special winter ball version of ATF that recaps all the offseason action by Indians players in the Caribbean Leagues. The positions listed below are where the player was playing in the game.Here is the rundown of what Indians players in winter ball did yesterday...

| December 21, 2011

Top 50 Prospects: #22 – Drew Pomeranz

#22 Drew Pomeranz Colorado Rockies DOB: 11/22/1988 Previous Rank: N/R ETA: 2012 Pomeranz was the centerpiece of the deal that brought Ubaldo Jimenez to Cleveland, and we at The Sombrero thought the move was a win for the Rox in large part due to Pomeranz’ stuff and projectability. Unfortunately, Colorado rushed him up to make four starts late in the year after 20 across three...

Via The Golden Sombrero Baseball Blog

| December 20, 2011

Jimenez could be key to Indians rotation

It's clear the Indians are going to have to depend heavily on their pitching staff to carry the team in 2012. The Indians had one of the best bullpens in the majors last season, and they will be one of the few major league teams that will go to spring training with their starting rotation already set. Barring injury, the Indians figure to open the season with a rotation of Justin...

Via Fox Sports Ohio | December 12, 2011