Email a copy of 'AL Central Notes: Indians, White Sox, Royals' to a friend
Loading ...
By Jeff Todd and Connor Byrne | at
Email a copy of 'AL Central Notes: Indians, White Sox, Royals' to a friend
MLB Trade Rumors is not affiliated with Major League Baseball, MLB or MLB.com
hide arrows scroll to top
stymeedone
Say goodbye to Santana. Unless he plays like Chris Carter at 1B, the Indians just added 15 more teams to their competition to keep him.
Burgeezy
Honestly, I think that was the plan. This gives them a good chance to evaluate whether he is worth resigning at a first baseman rate as some teams would surely considering signing him to play first regardless of where plays in 2017 due to his offensive output. If he performs well and signs elsewhere the tribe brass can cite market restraints but have EE with Bradley powering through the minors. If he performs poorly, he may depress his market enough the stay within the tribe’s price range.
Ilikesox
I agree I think that is exactly what they are thinking. Might give them an excuse not to resign him as their budget will be tight next off season. Though it’s not like first baseman raked in the cash this off season
Mattimeo09
In addition to the budget side of this, I think this is also an act of appreciation from the tribe. Santana has been with the Indians for a long time and he’s entering a contract year. If the Lucroy veto taught us anything it’s that playing time on the field matters and can substantially affect your value.
I give it two months; three months tops
pjmcnu
Kinda dickish commentary on Mondesi. He was 20! If the Royals weren’t mindlessly rushing him to the bigs based on a couple of WS appearances, he’d have been having a good (I presume) year at AA, tops. Probably should have started the year with the Blue Rocks. It’s all well & good to brag that your prospect is “the youngest guy at every level” & excuse his .260 BA, etc., because of it, but at some point you have to put him in a position to succeed & then let him do it. Putting him in the bigs at 20 when he hadn’t crushed the upper minors is NOT it. And pointing out a crappy rookie year without taking a sentence or two to point all this out is pretty unfair. I’m not a Royals fan or even a Mondesi fan (nothing against him, tho), but this struck me as unfair to him.
chesteraarthur
I agree with this, but I’m not sure the writer was really trying to say anything against him. It wouldn’t have hurt though to include something like even though his line is terrible it’s impressive that he even made it to mlb that early.
The part about what’s best for his development is probably the most important. Sending him down becuase he has options makes sense, but sending him down because he really has no business being in the majors yet makes as much sense.
basquiat
Carlos Santana’s defensive chops? That’s hilarious.