Good-bye Hector Luna, we hardly knew ya. And the reason we hardly knew you was because you never spoke with the Buffalo media.
When the news of the Cleveland Indians designating Hector Luna for assignment (translation, demoting his a$$) was announced on July 28 it was met with smirks and a few 'about times' by most of the Dunn Tire Park regular media and team workers.

Luna was a bust, pure and simple. He hit just .251 and had a team-worst 21 errors in 83 games.  
But he was also a tough cat to figure out. The local media didn't hound him when he struggled, and believe me, he had glorious moments of ineptitude. And we were more than ready to give him his due when he played well. Each interview request was met with a no.

OK, granted no player has to speak with reporters and we all do our best to make sure we show respect to players privacy. So this isn't complaining it's simply pointing out a fact.
And yes, the fact he didn't have great command of english was a factor we understood, but he could have always had a teammate translate.
Luna had a poor spring training and the buzz was he was in a snit about having to start the year in Triple-A. OK guy then how about using the media to your advantage and show everyone that you're ready to work hard and do whatever is needed to return to the Majors.
He didn't.
So, see ya later Hector.


The best news of Luna being set adrift was the hope that 21-year old diamond stud Asrubal Cabrera would finally get bumped up to Triple-A.
Cabrera, who came to the Cleveland baseball family through a June 30, 2006 trade with Seattle, has been hitting at a .300 clip all year and has widely been regarded as one of the best players in the Eastern League this season.

Cabrera hit just .263 last season with Buffalo but he did record an impressive 50 hits in the 52 games he played in. On the downside "Cabby" made 14 errors in that same span.

Though he has 15 errors this year reports are that his defense is far better than the 15 flubs indicate and his over all game has improved.

As tempting as it might be to bring Cabrera up and see what he can do Bisons manager Torey Lovullo stated the Indians plan from the start was not to rush Cabrera. They wanted to give him a full season in Double-A and they appear ready to stick to that plan which isn't a bad idea at all. The feeling around the Indians camp is the Mariners may have rushed him along too quickly. Cabrera played 63 games in Single-A in 2004 then another 51 in 2005 before leap-frogging Double-A and getting promoted to Triple-A Tacoma.

Under GM Mark Shapiro the Indians have done a tremendous job of slowly but surely bringing its talent along and not pushing guys into situations they may not be ready to handle.
As much as we would all enjoy watching Cabrera play it really is best for him to get another month or so of seasoning with Akron.
It'll be worth the wait.