Welp, it went as quickly as it came, the 94-01 run of brilliance in Cleveland is officially over at this point and a rebuild is in full swing. That offseason a trade was made that sent Robbie Alomar to the New York Mets for a package that netted Cleveland Matt Lawton and a prospect named Alex Escobar. While Lawton was the only Major League ready piece Cleveland got, Escobar was the key return in the deal, a consensus top 10 prospect in baseball. Escobar never quite panned out in Cleveland while Alomar fell off a cliff in New York, Lawton one time hit a pop up foul that bounced off my brother’s face in our seats in section 158, so I like to think we came out on top in the trade.
75 Years and Counting: The Story of the 2002 Cleveland Indians
