Coverage down in Winter Haven continues this week. On Tuesday, Lastoria focused his attention on the major league players who took part in the morning practice session. Lots of video and pics are included here, highlighted by video of Sizemore taking BP, Blake and Garko working out at 1B, the Indians practicing situational hitting and running, and many, many, many pictures from camp.

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The Indians are getting a lot of press these days from numerous baseball pundits predicting big things for the team in 2007. With that in mind, Tony Lastoria decided it was time to search these guys out and find out why. In the first of a series of Q&A's he conducted with some of the most respected baseball writers in the industry, Tony tracked down Jeff Sackmann from The Hardball Times, a superb website that generates daily, original baseball commentary and analysis on a wide range of topics such as baseball history, statistics, current events and the minor leagues.

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This is the debut of Winter Haven Live, a piece that hopefully can help bring the spring training experience home to the fans. Many fans cannot make it to spring training, where we dispatched Tony Lastoria to this week. So for the next week he's going to try and make this column the next best thing to being there as he provides some quick recaps of the happenings in camp, but most importantly ... provides lots of pictures and videos you do not normally see on TV, in the newspapers, or online. Enjoy!

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On a bird down to Winter Haven as we speak, Tony Lastoria checks in with his weekly update on what's going on in Spring Training. Tony reports that Luis Rivas is winning the battle for the utility infielder job, and that Adam Miller could find his way to Cleveland THIS YEAR. Also, he provides updates on Cliff Lee's injury, the battle for bullpen spots, and the prospects that are surprising in camp. Tony will be checking in all next week with updates galore from Winterhaven ... so don't forget to check back in.

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