• Unfortunately, the Barnes & Noble at the Great Lake Mall in Mentor didn't set up any chairs for BP fans. Instead, Will and John Erhardt (Baseball Prospectus editor and writer of "The Week in Quotes") sat behind a small table while everyone else stood around them for 2 hours. After a while, my back began to hurt.
• Will guilted me into buying Saving the Pitcher.
• Some of Will's answers to my inane questions:
  1. Adam Miller should be able to return from his UCL injury at full strength or close to it eventually--although the medical staff will always have to be careful with him, due to scarring. His injury is strange because Miller reportedly had very good mechanics.
  2. C.C.'s mechanics are so bad that every year we should expect him to break down and need Tommy John surgery. The Indians know this, but sometimes tinkering with a pitcher's motion will screw up the results. Therefore, the Indians can't really do anything until C.C. does break down (if it happens, for he seems super-human in this respect).
  3. The Indians have one of baseball's best medical staffs. Carl Willis is a good pitching coach due to his usage patterns, but he never changes a pitcher's delivery.
  4. The White Sox are really, really stupid when it comes to treating pitchers.
  5. Chris Antonetti (Indians' Assistant General Manager) is one of the smartest people in baseball.
• Some other baseball writer-type guy showed up in the middle, and Will recognized him but I have no clue who he was. He kind of looked like Jim Caple, but it wasn't him.
• There will likely be a BP Cleveland Pizza Feed this season