Cleveland Indians 2008-2014 draft overview

Over the past six weeks or so, we have been reviewing each of the Tribe's drafts year-by-year, starting with 2008, Brad Grant's first season as Director of Amateur Scouting.

Here is a summary of where each draft stands. The LGT poll results suggest that 2011 (and potentially also 2014) was a great draft, and that 2010 was a flop.

2008 (review)

Poll grade: C (45% of the vote)

25-man roster: 1 (R. Perez)
AAA: 3 (Chisenhall, Haley, House)
AA: 1 (Moncrief )
Played MLB but no longer with Tribe: 3 (Phelps, Putnam, Langwell)

Since the original 2008 review early last month, Lonnie Chisenhall has been demoted to Columbus, Trey Haley has been promoted to Columbus, Carlos Moncrief demoted to AA and Clayton Cook has been released.

2009 (review)

Poll grade: B (48% of the vote)

25-man roster: 2 (Kipnis, Adams)
AAA: 1 (Sturdevant)
AA: 1 (Colon)
Played MLB but no longer with Tribe: 4 (White, Burns, Guilmet, Nuno)

2010 (review)

Poll grade: D (42% of the vote)

AAA: 1 (Holt)
AA: 3 (J.Cooper, Wolters, Lavisky)
A+: 2 (Washington, R.Aviles)
Played MLB but no longer with Tribe: 1 (Pomeranz)

Since the original 2010 review Jordan Cooper and Alex Lavisky have been demoted to AA and LeVon Washngton promoted to A+.

2011 (review)

Poll grade: A (36% of the vote)

25-man roster: 3 (Lindor, Anderson, Allen)
AAA: 2 (Armstrong, Roberts)
AA: 7 (Lowery, Myles, Smith, Johnson, Hankins, Merritt, Morimando)
A+: 3 (Haase, Medina, Sides)

Since the original 2011 review, Cody Anderson was promoted to the Indians, Will Roberts promoted to Columbus, Grant Sides demoted to the Hillcats and Brian Ruiz released.

2012 (review)

Poll grade: C (34% of the vote)

AAA: 2 (Naquin, Wendle at Oakland)
AA: 5 (Lee, Martin, J.Lucas, Head, Sever)
A+: 5 (M.Brown, Baker, Peoples, N.Rodriguez, D.J. Brown)
A: 2 (Hamrick, Pasquale)
MVS: 3 (Lovegrove, McClure, Stokes)

2013 (review)

Poll grade: B (24% of the vote, but 39% voted "still too early to say")

25-man roster: 1 (Crockett)
AA: 1 (Plutko)
A+: 6 (Frazier, Kime, Frank, Loopstok, Hendrix, Heller)
A: 5 (Brady, Pannone, Fink, Milbrath, Garcia)
MVS: 2 (Shane, Sayles)
AZL: 2 (Cox, Giuffre)
DL: 3 (Sulser, Mathews, Whitehouse)

Since the original 2013 review, Kyle Crockett has rejoined the Indians.

2014 (review)

Poll grade: A (33% of the vote, but 39% voted "still too early to say")

AA: 1 (Zimmer)
A+: 2 (Papi, Feyereisen)
A: 11 (Sheffield, Bradley, Merryweather, Allen, Patterson, Eubank, Hill, Murphy, Ison, Armendariz, Speer)
MVS: 6 (Robinson, Fisher, Jordan Carter, Jodd Carter, Winfrey, DeMasi)
AZL: 5 (Hentges, S.Lucas, Miniard, Pantoja, Gonzalez)
DL: 3 (Hockin, Dunatov, Angulo)