Jamey Carroll News

With the winter meetings officially beginning Monday, a good market for free agent utility man Jamey Carroll has already been established.

Although the Reds are working on a budget and are not expected to make a huge splash at the Winter Meetings, general manager Walt Jocketty is still optimistic something would get done.

While the Indians aren't expected to go outside the organization to make any significant additions to their roster this winter, they do have some significant in-house additions coming later this week.

There will be a small but tangible PR boost from the signing, and going on 43, Vizquel can still play decent defense.

As the rebuilding Indians look to the free-agent market for infield insurance, it's possible they'll consider a little dose of "Little O." Omar Vizquel figures to become available on the open market late next week, and he'll be one of several veteran infielders the Indians could potentially pursue for their utility role.

The Indians, at the moment, are expecting Jake Westbrook to be in the starting rotation when the season opens April 5 at U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago.

While riding the undertow of their 97-loss season this year, the Indians reviewed the organization to see what went wrong and how to fix it.

Here's a press release from the MLBPA listing the players eligible to file for free agency beginning today.

When it comes to the Indians' roster, what you see now very well may be what you get in 2010.

The Indians are going into the offseason with a lot of questions. Asdrubal Cabrera is not one of them.

The next Indians manager doesn't have to be on the same word of the same sentence on the same page with the general manager.

John Danks set a single-season high in victories and did it in style on Monday night at Progressive Field during the White Sox 6-1 victory over the Indians.

The Indians led the Orioles, 6-0, through three innings today at Progressive Field.

CLEVELAND -- The Tigers beat the Indians, 11-3, Wednesday night. But the game still had a scary moment for the Tigers, a moment that transcended the pennant race with the Minnesota Twins and reached far into the future.

WHAT HAPPENED: Having already allowed two runs in the inning, Justin Verlander escaped a second-and-third, none-out jam in the third.

Shortly before 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Jamey Carroll's line drive ricocheted off the hind quarters of rookie phenom Rick Porcello.

Rookie Matt LaPorta , one of the few reasons still left to watch the Indians, didn't play Wednesday because of a sore left hip.

OAKLAND: Rookies wear big-league uniforms, but they aren't fully formed major leaguers.

Jhonny Peralta's four RBI Saturday keyed Cleveland's 13-6 rout of Kansas City. Shin-Soo Choo hit a two-run homer and scored three times.

Oakland Athletics' Kurt Suzuki, right, eludes the tag from Cleveland Indians' Jamey Carroll on his way to second base after Landon Powell hit the ball in the seventh inning of their MLB game at the Oakland/Alameda County Coliseum in Oakland, Calif., on Thursday, Sept.