The Indians' disappointing season resulted in another subtraction from the roster Tuesday, as pitcher Paul Byrd was traded to Boston for a player to be named or cash.
Cleveland will make a roster move Wednesday to take Byrd's spot on the roster. The two leading candidates to be recalled from Class AAA Buffalo are left-handers Aaron Laffey and Zach Jackson. Whichever pitcher is called up will go into Byrd's spot in the rotation and will start Thursday night against Baltimore. Laffey had spent most of the season with the Indians, but when he couldn't shake a midseason slump, he was sent to Buffalo to make some adjustments.
Laffey has only made two starts at Buffalo since that demotion, and it's possible Indians officials may want to leave him down there longer for further tinkering.
If that's the case, then Jackson likely will get the call. He is one of the four players the Indians got from Milwaukee in the CC Sabathia trade. Jackson has been used as both a starter and reliever at Buffalo, where in eight appearances, four of them starts, he is 3-1 with a 4.05 ERA.
INDIANS 7, ORIOLES 5: INF Asdrubal Cabrera had three hits, and the Indians scored two runs in the eighth inning to break a 5-5 tie in winning their fifth game in a row. Cabrera and OF Ben Francisco had RBI hits in the eighth-inning rally that made a winner of reliever LHP Rafael Perez, who evened his record at 2-2.
