In what amounts to a tacit admission that the Indians have no realistic chance of making the playoffs this year, the Tribe front office has sold the contracts of two of its outfielders to teams who expect to still be playing once the calendar turns to October.
On Tuesday evening, the Indians announced that they had traded outfielder David Murphy (left in the photo above) to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in exchange for Double-A shortstop Eric Stamets. Earlier today, the Indians traded outfielder/first baseman Brandon Moss to the St.