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Indians Uncertain About Trade Status
As MLB.com's Anthony Castrovince reports, GM Mark Shapiro and the Indians still haven't decided if they are going to start pawning off their movable pieces for players that can help the team next year and beyond.
"We're on the sidelines right now," Shapiro said. "We're keeping a pulse of the market and not making a decision in either direction."
The Tribe were 24-34 and seven games back in the AL Central coming into today's action, but currently have eight players on the disabled list. Starters Cliff Lee and the resurgent Carl Pavano figure to draw significant interest from contending teams, ditto catcher Victor Martinez. We've certainly heard plenty of rumors about infielder Mark DeRosa already.
With no reason to move players sooner rather than later, the Indians can afford to sit back and see how things play out once they get healthy. They are just one hot week from being right back in thick of things in a winnable division after all.
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Posted by: pinetarhand | June 07, 2009 at 04:05 PM
Heh, funny how things change over a few hours. First it looks like they'll become sellers, then it the GM says he's not sure which way they're going to go.
Posted by: Mike Axisa | June 07, 2009 at 04:15 PM
It's more than likely that they'll be sellers. I've heard the remark "We'll they're just a hot streak away from being in contention" to many times and they're yet to put together any type of streak.
Even though Joe Smith is do back anytime you have Grady Sizemore on the DL and may need surgery on his elbow which will end his season. Then you have Jake Westbrook, Aaron Laffey, Rafael Betancourt, and Asdrubal Cabrera not do back til the end of the month at the earliest.
I love my Indians, but I am a realist. To many injuries at this point to make any kind of late heroic effort to catch up imo. They should start making moves now while people are still in need.
Posted by: Dalandow | June 07, 2009 at 10:30 PM