The Cleveland Indians front office has danced around the idea of trading one of their starting pitchers all offseason, and now President Chris Antonetti has brought the tap dancing crusade to the Winter Meetings.
In a recent media event the former general manager (but still basically general manager) had this to say regarding the idea of trading a starting pitcher to improve the Tribe’s offense, via Jordan Bastian:
"Our rotation’s been a strength of the team, so we would be very judicious in considering trading away one of those guys. It’s certainly not our intent.