Following the 2018 MLB Winter Meetings, What’s Next for the Indians?

2. Expect Alonso Gone Next

If you add in newly acquired Jake Bauers and Carlos Santana, the Indians have three first basemen on their roster right now, and that won’t be the case come spring training.

The team would love to continue to drop some payroll, and the way to do that is to deal firstbasmen Yonder Alonso to a team that still is looking for a bat in their lineup at a reasonable price.

Trading Alonso will save the Indians $8 mil this season, and while Thurday’s deal saved them some money, expect a deal to trade Alonso, who hit .250 with 23 homers last year, to be more like the trade of Yan Gomes, one that will net a few prospects.

Yes losing both Edwin Encarnacion and Alonso from the lineup will leave a dearth of a lot of homers, but that’s the economic climate this team is in at the moment.

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