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With the Cleveland Indians in town, it seemed like an appropriate time to ask Double-A Bowie manager Brad Komminsk about Travis Hafner's inclusion on Akron's roster for the last two games of the Easten League Southern Division playoffs - and the grand slam and two-run shot that Hafner contributed while the Aeros were eliminating the Baysox.

No surprisingly, Komminsk wasn't a huge fan of the Indians' decision to assign Hafner to Akron as part of an injury rehab assignment. And this is coming from someone who managed the Aeros for three seasons and worked in the Indians' player development system for eight years.

"They had him in (Triple-A) Buffalo for three weeks," Komminsk said. "In my opinion, why bring him to Akron when he could have been on the big league roster? I talked to the farm director and they thought about sending him to A ball, but they wanted him to play at the highest level. I told him the big leagues are the highest level.

"(The Indians) aren't going to the playoffs. They have no chance of winning. Why he couldn't go there and do what he's been doing makes no sense to me. I think they brought (Jeremy) Sowers down last year, too. I think you should go with the guys you had. We could have had Melvin Mora down here or Chris Ray, but what's the point? Ray would have been a logical choice, since he rehabbed for us already. Hafner rehabbed in Buffalo for about three weeks. He had 20 or 30 at-bats at Triple-A. It would have been easy to slide him back into the (Indians') lineup. And I don't think those eight at-bats (with Akron) made a difference for him.

"It didn't sit well with me. I talked to people in different organizations and they all said the same thing. For that time of the year, it's not the right thing to do. But this isn't sour grapes. They're a good team. They played us well all year. Our numbers were almost identical if you look them up - runs, doubles, triples home runs, RBIs, all that stuff. It's uncanny how close it was. But you get (Hafner), and it just changes the whole complexion of the game. A big leaguer hits a grand slam and you have to make up four runs. It's a tie game if you take him out of there. And the next day, when he hit that two-run jack, you could see it take the wind out of their sails."

Komminsk broke down some of the prospects on Bowie's roster, which I'll save for another time. I'm heading to the gym and then the ballpark. We'll talk later.