The Indians are reportedly open to trading Justin Masterson and have been in contact with the Yankees, but there are reportedly no legs to those talks and Cleveland isn't near a trade of any player. A couple of other Tribe notes…
- General manager Chris Antonetti told Jon Heyman of CBS Sports that the Indians would love to have Ubaldo Jimenez back and aren't ruling out a return for the right-hander (Twitter link). Indians pitching coach Mickey Callaway is a big factor for Jimenez, Heyman notes.
- Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports looks at the Tribe's surplus of outfielders (on Twitter) with Michael Bourn, Michael Brantley, David Murphy, Drew Stubbs and Ryan Raburn all in the fold, noting that something is likely to give. Rosenthal notes that Cleveland is listening on virtually all of its players.
Aren’t ALL teams “listening on virtually all of their players”?
And all teams would love to have Jimenez. Antonetti always speaks very vaguely in the offseason.
And the pre season, regular season and post season. In fact I can’t recall him ever saying any thing specific
HAHA. True, although I bet the Rockies have a bit of a “been there, done that” perspective.
If they have a surplus of outfielders, why did they sign David Murphy?
Because the Indians struggled vs. RHP and Murphy owns a .280 avg vs them. They tried Stubbs as the every day RF and he didn’t cut it.