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Originally Posted by OKchiefs
The Indians traded Yan Gomes to Washington. I'm curious what other trades they'll end up making. I completely agree with their strategy of trading off players and getting the rebuild started before everyone walks and the cupboard is bare. It's how you expedite the rebuild and avoid 5-7 years of building like we're forced to go through.
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They may move one of their front of rotation guys (Kluber, Carrasco, Bauer) but I don’t expect much else.
Gomes was expensive and they didn’t get much back in return at all. I don’t believe either of the prospects received made the Indians top 10 guys.
They’re also not doing a full tear down. They’re trying to selectively sell a few pieces here and there to shed payroll.
That may be to clear some payroll for a Lindor extension or extend their window... but they’re also not making moves that are going to allow them to close this window with a title unless something fluky happens.
So they’ll walk about with 5-6 division titles in a decade, with one WS appearance and no wins.
Wouldn’t trade two WS and a title for that, no matter what the rest of the decade shows.