Cleveland Indians

Insider to coach pitchers

The Indians didn't have to look far to hire a pitching coach. Tim Belcher has been working for the team the past eight years as special assistant to baseball operations. In that role, he has done advance scouting, instructed pitchers in spring training and filled in as pitching coach at several minor-league levels.

Indians insider to coach pitchers

Indians hire Tim Belcher as pitching coach

CLEVELAND: Former Indians pitcher Tim Belcher is the team's new pitching coach, the first member of manager Manny Acta's staff.

Browns might draft Kosar for a bigger role

It will take a disaster of monstrous proportions for the Browns to replace coach Eric Mangini during the season. Owner Randy Lerner is just not going to make that move.

McMANAMON: Kosar might land bigger role with Browns

It will take a disaster of monstrous proportions for the Browns to replace coach Eric Mangini during the season. Owner Randy Lerner is just not going to make that move.

Indians trim 3 from 40-man roster

The Indians made three adjustments to their 40-man roster Friday, trimming it to 33 players. Left-handed reliever Mike Gosling, left-handed starter Scott Lewis and infielder Niuman Romero were outrighted to Triple-A. Lewis began the season in the Tribe's rotation but spent much of the saason on the disabled list. Gosling and Romero both spent part of the season with the Indians.

Indians flavor of World Series opener hard for some to swallow

CLEVELAND: The Indians didn't prepare to play in the World Series this week. They hired a new manager. And while the rest of the country gears up for a sexy Series matchup between the defending-champion Philadelphia Phillies and the storied New York Yankees, heartbroken Indians fans — who have endured 61 years of futility since claiming their last baseball championship — are lamenting what might have been.

North High grad recalls winning 1969 World Series with Mets

BROWN TWP.: Jack DiLauro knows he will always belong as part of the fraternity. But for most of the year he's simply lost the connection.

Tribe moves fast on Acta

CLEVELAND: Last week toward the end of his second interview with the Indians, Manny Acta was asked what he would do if the Houston Astros and the Indians both offered him their job as manager.

Tribe fans should give Acta chance to prove himself

CLEVELAND: Who did you expect, Joe Torre, Tony La Russa, Ron Gardenhire? They all have jobs, and if they didn't, they would command top dollar in the marketplace. Would that disqualify them to manage the Indians? Who knows? It doesn't matter, because that's not reality. What's real is Manny Acta, the Tribe's new skipper.