Cleveland has one of the best minor league systems in all of baseball, and with all the elite talent at the lower levels, that usually means a roster crunch is coming.
Since 2016, the front office hasn’t been afraid to trade away some of its top prospects to fill holes on its roster. So let’s take a look at every trade or Rule 5 draft where prospects from Cleveland went elsewhere and see how those players have panned out.
I’ll be stopping the tracker in this article at the end of 2018, because while Cleveland has made trades since 2018, most haven’t had the time to flesh themselves out and most trades have involved acquiring prospects, not trading them away.