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Indians sign four-year deal with Columbus to be their Class AAA team

by Paul Hoynes Thursday September 18, 2008, 5:28 PM


The Indians' top minor-league team, as expected, will be playing in Columbus next season and beyond.
Officials from the Indians and Class AAA Columbus Clippers agreed to a four-year deal today that will run through 2012. Buffalo had been the Indians' Triple-A home since 1995.
Columbus had been the top farm club for the Washington Nationals for the last two years. Before that, they'd had a 28-year relationship with the New York Yankees.
Columbus is moving into a new downtown ballpark. They had played at Cooper Stadium.
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Tribe Triple-A team moving to Columbus
Friday, September 19, 2008
BY JOSH WEIR
[email protected]

CLEVELAND Tribe fans wanting to check out the Indians' Triple-A talent next year need only to navigate down I-71.

In a long expected move, the Indians announced Thursday that they have signed a four-year Player Development Contract with the Columbus Clippers. Earlier this month, the organization cut ties with the Buffalo Bisons after 14 years.

Now four of the Indians' top five minorleague affiliates are in Ohio, including Double-A Akron, Single-A Lake County and short-season Single-A Mahoning Valley.
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Bob Hunter commentary: Fans will form a bond with new Clippers

Friday, September 19, 2008 3:16 AM
By Bob Hunter


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH


The four-year affiliation agreement the Clippers reached with the Cleveland Indians yesterday brings an end to the city's baseball black hole.
Didn't know we had one? Sure, you did. Let me demonstrate its power:
Do you know what has happened to Kory Casto since being called up by Washington on Sept. 1? Chances are good that you don't. Frankly, neither do I.
The talented young infielder left Columbus for another chance with the Nationals at the end of the Clippers' season, but no one around here save a few devoted seamheads probably has the slightest idea what he has done since he got there. He boarded a plane at Port Columbus and went missing, presumably never to be seen in these parts again.

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Clippers, Indians thinking long term
Rules limit contract to four years, but both sides expect lasting ties
Saturday, September 20, 2008 3:21 AM
By Jim Massie


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
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FRED SQUILLANTE dispatch
Clippers general manager Ken Schnacke steps to the microphone inside new Huntington Park at a news conference making official the club's affiliation with the Indians.



Against the rattling backdrop of the construction noise within the rising Huntington Park, the Clippers and Cleveland Indians signed a triple-A working agreement yesterday that will tie the two teams together through the 2012 season.
Not included in the dust or the paperwork is the intention by both parties to maintain the association far deeper into the future.
"We can only sign for four years," Clippers general manager Ken Schnacke said. "We would have signed for 40. Really, this will go on long after I'm gone, unless I work until I'm 85."

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Baseball
Healthy crop: Indians' farm system should provide plenty of talent for Clippers

Wednesday, September 24, 2008 4:52 AM
By Jim Massie


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
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Matt LaPorta, was acquired from the Milwaukee Brewers in the CC Sabathia trade.

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Gene J. Puskar Associated Press
Pitcher Adam Miller has been plagued by arm and finger injuries of late yet still has been the Indians' No. 1 prospect four years running.




That awkward, kid-in-a-new-school feeling that accompanies a change in affiliation between a major-league baseball team and a triple-A city should pass as quickly as a first recess for the Cleveland Indians and the Columbus Clippers.
Plenty of Tribe fans live within Clippers territory, and many of those can recite the injury travails of top Cleveland pitching prospect Adam Miller and the heady power potential of outfielder/first baseman Matt LaPorta.
The Clippers team that will open the new Huntington Park on April 18 could have Miller and LaPorta on the roster along with some other familiar names such as outfielder Trevor Crowe, a 2005 first-round draft pick, or third baseman Wes Hodges, this season's rookie of the year in the Eastern League.

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random thoughts
Name change is in order for Clippers

Friday, September 26, 2008 4:40 AM
By Martin Rozenman



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Now that the Columbus Clippers
are the top farm team of the Cleve-
land Indians, we need to lose the "Clippers."
The team is getting a snazzy new stadium in Huntington Park, so why not go all out and choose a new
nickname, too?
It's not as if the Clippers moniker has been around forever. Not all that long ago, in fact, they were the Jets -- and, before that, the Redbirds.
Clippers was fine for its time, but that expired in the mid-1990s.
Now? No.
We need to hit a naming home run.

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