CLEVELAND -- Every Major League team is searching for the next great power hitter. The Indians have lacked that kind of prospect in the upper rungs of the farm system for several seasons, making the hunt for more thump in the heart of the order almost an annual exercise each winter.
Cleveland has not drafted and developed an impact power hitter since the days of Jim Thome and Manny Ramirez, but perhaps that drought will end a few summers from now. This past season, power was on full display roughly 18 miles east of Progressive Field at Classic Park, home of the Class A Lake County Captains.