Wyatt Toregas News

The Indians say it's nothing serious, but Carlos Santana has been shutdown after playing one game in winter ball.

Sandy Alomar Jr. really wanted to return to Cleveland. The Mets offered him a job to coach first base and instruct their catchers on Jerry Manuel's big-league staff.

The Red Sox lead the Indians, 12-6, today after six innings at Fenway Park. Red Sox power: Trailing 6-4, J.D. Drew started the Boston rally with a homer off Tomo Ohko in the fourth to make it 6-5. Muscle Inc.

Clubhouse confidential: Yes, there are still enough veterans on the Indians to torment the rookies and make them dress up in strange attire in baseball's annual rite of passage.

CLEVELAND: Nobody can know if Fausto Carmona's last two starts of the season are positive indicators for the future, but better to finish with a flourish than with a whimper.

In Thursday's third inning, Justin Verlander loaded the bases with a walk to Wyatt Toregas, the Indians' No.

Oakland's Daric Barton is out at home after being tagged by the Cleveland Indians' Wyatt Toregas, right, in the sixth inning of Sunday's game.

Indians manager Eric Wedge keeps saying his team is not running out of steam as the season nears its end.

Kansas City Royals' David DeJesus, left, scores ahead of the tag of Cleveland Indians catcher Wyatt Toregas in the seventh inning of a baseball game on Sunday, Sept.

September baseball may be losing its luster in Cleveland this season, but in Akron, the Aeros are alive -- and even thriving.

Aaron Laffey will face Brandon McCarthy in the second game. SportsTime Ohio will show both games.

For the moment, Lou Marson is merely the fourth catcher added to a Tribe roster bursting with backstops.

If the Indians want to keep Andy Marte past this season, all they have to do is keep him right where he is today on the 40-man roster.

Wyatt Toregas practices his steeplechase skills during a rain delay. The flooded dugouts caused a considerable delay.

Here's a tidbit the Indians can hang their collective hat on. They have, on their active roster, one of the three greatest players with the first name of Wyatt in the history of Major League Baseball.

CLEVELAND: Wyatt Toregas insists this is the true story of how his parents picked his name.

If it's not one shoulder, it's another. For the past two seasons Travis Hafner has been bothered by a sore right shoulder.

When a minor-league catcher is called up to the majors for the first time in the middle of a season, it can feel like he's facing a final exam in calculus and doesn't even know the name of the textbook.

KANSAS CITY, MO.: The Indians' chartered bus from the hotel to the ballpark Wednesday morning was involved in an accident, when it was struck by a car that veered out of control during a downpour.

No one was hurt. No one was shot. No one was wearing go-go boots. So when compared to the bus incident that transpired with the Tribe here in 2004, what happened Wednesday morning was pretty tame.