Cleveland Indians' Active Roster ending the 2007
ALCS
Monday, October
22nd,
2007
You know what I dislike about MLB? It doesn't seem to be
so much anymore about the city. People don't realize it, they
cheer on, chant the name of their city and their team with
pride.
But it's not like you can say, "that Boston sure breeds good ball players,"
or "Cleveland really knows how to make 'em." It's not as often,
anymore, that the players on your city's team are even from your
city.
Training can account for a part of success, sure, but natural talent
stands for more of why each player is on that
diamond. Yet money, contracts, trading, corporate hoo-hah as I like to call
it - that is landing them there more than that any real sense of
loyalty to where one came from.
What is the purpose? Ratings? So that everyone in the
nation will want to tune in when the Boston Red Sox and the Colorado
Rockies face off in the World Series?
Check out the Cleveland Indians' Active Roster at the end of the 2007
American League Championship Series:
| Player
Name |
Home City |
Home
State |
Home
Country |
Played Longest
for |
Started
with |
| Josh Barfield |
Barquisimeto |
Lara |
Venezuela |
Cleveland Indians |
San Diego Padres |
| Rafael Betancourt |
Cumana |
Sucre |
Venezuela |
Cleveland Indians |
Cleveland Indians |
| Casey Blake |
Des Moines |
Iowa |
USA |
Cleveland Indians |
Toronto Blue Jays |
| Joe Borowski |
Bayonne |
New Jersey |
USA |
Chicago Cubs |
Baltimore Orioles |
| Paul Byrd |
Louisville |
Kentucky |
USA |
Philadelphia Phillies |
New York Mets |
| Asdrubal Cabrera |
Puerto La Cruz |
Anzoategui |
Venezuela |
Cleveland Indians |
Cleveland Indians |
| Fausto Carmona |
Santo Domingo |
Distrito Nacional |
Dominican Republic |
Cleveland Indians |
Cleveland Indians |
| Aaron Fultz |
Memphis |
Tennessee |
USA |
San Francisco Giants |
San Francisco Giants |
| Ryan Garko |
Pittsburgh |
Pennsylvania |
USA |
Cleveland Indians |
Cleveland Indians |
| Chris Gomez |
Los Angeles |
California |
USA |
San Diego Padres |
Detroit Tigers |
| Franklin Gutierrez |
Caracas |
Capital District |
Venezuela |
Cleveland Indians |
Cleveland Indians |
| Travis Hafner |
Jamestown |
Maryland |
USA |
Cleveland Indians |
Texas Rangers |
| Aaron Laffey |
Cumberland |
Maryland |
USA |
Cleveland Indians |
Cleveland Indians |
| Jensen Lewis |
Cincinnati |
Ohio |
USA |
Cleveland Indians |
Cleveland Indians |
| Kenny Lofton |
East Chicago |
Indiana |
USA |
Cleveland Indians |
Houston Astros |
| Victor Martinez |
Ciudad Bolivar |
Bolivar |
Venezuela |
Cleveland Indians |
Cleveland Indians |
| Tom Mastny |
East Bontang |
Borneo |
Indonesia |
Cleveland Indians |
Cleveland Indians |
| Jason Michaels |
Tampa |
Florida |
USA |
Philadelphia Phillies |
Philadelphia Phillies |
| Trot Nixon |
Durham |
North Carolina |
USA |
Boston Red Sox |
Boston Red Sox |
| Jhonny Peralta |
Santo Domingo |
Distrito Nacional |
Dominican Republic |
Cleveland Indians |
Cleveland Indians |
| Rafael Perez |
Santo Domingo |
Distrito Nacional |
Dominican Republic |
Cleveland Indians |
Cleveland Indians |
| C.C. Sabathia |
Vallejo |
California |
USA |
Cleveland Indians |
Cleveland Indians |
| Kelly Shoppach |
Fort Worth |
Texas |
USA |
Cleveland Indians |
Boston Red Sox |
| Grady Sizemore |
Seattle |
Washington |
USA |
Cleveland Indians |
Cleveland Indians |
| Jake Westbrook |
Athens |
Georgia |
USA |
Cleveland Indians |
New York Yankees |
Zero of them were born in Cleveland, Ohio. Zero
percent, zip, zilch, none. What does that tell us? Does that
mean that there is not one person that was born and raised in the entire
city of Cleveland that is good enough to play Major League
Baseball?
No, there may well be Clevelanders on other teams in the
MLB. But why other teams, then?
Only one of the players is even from the state of
Ohio: pitcher Jensen Lewis, from the opposite end of the state in
Cincinnati.
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