While We’re Waiting…Asdrubal Cabrera to Start MLB All Star Game, Massaquoi in Jeopardy, MLB Trade Market

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Asdrubal is your ASG starter and his predecessor Jhon Peralta now joins him on the team – amazing: “Asdrubal Cabrera is where he belongs. Cabrera will start at short stop for the American League at Tuesday NIght’s Major League Baseball All-Star Game after Derek Jeter, voted to the starting spot by the fans, pulled out of the game due to injury. Jeter returned earlier this week from a 3-week stint on the disabled list with a calf injury. Jeter has also been worn down by his quest for 3000 hits.” [John Bena/SB Nation Cleveland]

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MoMass being edged out? “The numbers however are a bit misleading, Massaquoi has disappeared for games on end and has lacked any real consistency, while Robiskie finished the 2010 season visually and statistically more impressive.  The end of last year, for Robiskie, has not gone unnoticed by second-year general manager Tom Heckert…Down to one spot left on the roster. Since Cribbs, Little, Mitchell, Haggerty and Norwood all seem to be in favor of the Browns’ brass, this leaves a choice between Massaquoi and Robiskie to fill that final spot.” [Samuel Ingro/National Football Authority]

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Looking at the trade market as the deadline season begins: “Perhaps you could make a case that Buck and Kearns are playing over their head recently (and I’d listen on Kearns…if not Buck) and maybe Frenchy could be a platoon partner with Buck, but the truth is that this trade market is going to take a while to shake out and, while it does, there is suddenly the possibility that Choo (according to him, at least) could be on the fast-track back into the lineup. While so much has been written about how the Indians need to find another option for RF because of the severity and recovery time for Choo’s finger, if Choo is TRULY ready to come back to the team in the second week of August, the Indians have more flexibility to add a piece to the team going forward.  Whether they do or not – and what team is even willing to talk trade – remains to be seen as the news that Choo could be back in about a month is cause for celebration and reason to turn a blind eye to what “available”, mediocre OF around the league might be had for…” [Paul Cousineau/The DiaTribe]

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More on that dopey list: “I can think of so many sports stars who are more fitting to use as a testament to America’s greatness. Tim Duncan. Kurt Warner. Derek Jeter. Peja Stojakovic. The guy’s not even American and he should make the list ahead of LeBron. I’d even rather see Shaq sitting there at number 33 and that’s saying a lot being that I’ve never forgiven him for the fifteen bucks and two hours of my life lost when I took my kids to see Kazaam.  Under LeBron’s name on the list, Serwer writes: Will America’s biggest loser become a sympathetic figure?  I’m not quite sure how that gets one to qualify as a great thing about a country along with the Navy Seals, Steve Jobs and the Grand Canyon but I’m sure the answer to that question is a resounding no.” [Michelle Catalano/American McCarver]

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Update on Lonnie Chisenhall’s injury from Thursday night: “Indians third baseman Lonnie Chisenhall suffered a non-displaced sinus fracture underneath the right cheekbone after being hit by a pitch Thursday night, Tribe head trainer Lonnie Soloff said Friday afternoon.  Chisenhall is listed as day to day. The injury is expected to take 4-6 weeks to heal, but Chisenhall can play as soon as swelling around the right eye sufficiently subsides. Surgery is not required.” [Dennis Manoloff/The Plain Dealer]