Seemingly every year, the Cleveland Indians trade an All-Star caliber player away, and every year pundits decry their cheap ways, predicting this will be the move that sends the franchise into a funk. But more often than not, the player they send away turns into a pumpkin, the prospect haul turns out to be pretty good, and they seemingly find a guy off the street to replace him with a performance just as good.
In the past two years, the Indians have traded away Trevor Bauer, Corey Kluber, Mike Clevinger, Carlos Carrasco, and Francisco Lindor, and allowed Brad Hand and Carlos Santana to walk without any compensation in return.