We continue the cavalcade of pre-Winter Meetings rumors with a recent report from Buster Olney that the Cleveland Indians are willing to listen to offers on players this offseason. They don’t seem at all set on trading everyone, and top names like Francisco Lindor and Jose Ramirez are totally off the table, but that’s not so much a problem for the Astros. They can’t exactly trade for one of them and run two shortstops or second basemen or anything, so they’d probably be more focused on the rest of the roster anyway.
In fact, the Astros and Indians line up pretty well in a lot of ways.