Plenty of Questions on What the Indians Will Do Next with the Departure of Carlos Santana

10. Cleveland has made one minor move in signing Melvin Upton Jr to a minor league deal. I also expect more moves to be made by Cleveland. I’m just not sure when.

11. I’ve heard a lot of people already crown the Yankees as the new beast of the American league. I’m not ready to do that just yet. Major league baseball is not the NBA, it’s very unpredictable. There is a huge difference between March-September baseball and October baseball. It’s been proven time and time again. Cleveland was a victim of that last year against New York. Two seasons ago, Texas got knocked out by another wild card team in the ALDS, the Toronto Blue Jays.

With all the moves that have been made and all the moves that have still yet to be made, I’m actually looking forward to baseball in 2018 more than I was in 2017. I’m anxious to see how Cleveland responds to getting knocked out in the American league division series. I’m curious to see if the Yankees will actually dominate as much as the nationally media thinks they will. Out of all the players that have, and will eventually sign or be traded to new teams, how well will they play? Who are the under the radar teams? Which teams will shock people? The Phillies, Pirates, Mets, Padres? How about Tampa Bay, Toronto or White Sox? Every year in baseball, there are, in total, about 10-12 teams that could possibly win the World Series.

There are more moves to come, but rest assure, I’m not handing the Yankees another title just because they acquired Stanton. Cleveland certainly isn’t in a rebuild mode. If anything, the 2018 season has a lot hanging over it with all of the players that will become free-agents in 2019. Bryce Harper, Adam Jones, Nelson Cruz, Adam Wainwright, Manny Machado, Josh Donaldson, Eduardo Escobar, Jose Iglesias, Yasiel Puig, Charlie Blackmon and Dallas Keuchel. The pressure will be on all these teams to figure out if they’ll be able to keep their players or if they’re better off trading them, knowing they won’t be able to resign them.

 

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