Indians Start Veteran Firesale

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The Tribe officially started their veteran firesale by trading Eduardo Perez to Seattle for a minor league infielder Asdrubal Cabrera who I really hope is an all-star middle infielder in hiding.

The new guy went to Buffalo and Ryan Garko was called up to take the first base platoon spot with Ben Broussard as they continue the process of moving Victor Martinez to first (although I doubt there in too much of a hurry to start Kelly Shoppach on a regular basis after his error the other night).

Broussard is expected to be the next to go.

As much as I hate to see a season over before July, I guess I now just have to hope they don't screw up the team too much that next year becomes yet another rebuilding year.

"Cabrera, 20, batted .236 with 22 RBI in 60 games at Triple-A Tacoma. He didn't make an error in his first 36 games and leads Pacific Coast League shortstops in fielding percentage."

Well that puts him ahead of Jhonny "Huh? What's defense?" Peralta. Maybe they'll move Peralta to second and play this guy at short. Could be interesting.

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Fri 06/30/06, 12:35 pm EST

JuTMSY4Legend

1249 days ago

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I think this makes sense. the indians have a very good young nucleus and this should give them a chance to maybe pick up some young guys and add a vet in the off-season to complete this team. They're gonna have work hard though, they gotta beat the sox, tigers and probably the twins (They're competitive at the very least). THe indians would dominant the NL central...

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I am a cpcpMajor Leaguer

1249 days ago

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A lot of teams would dominate the NL central. :-)

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FriskysmanVarsity Captain

1249 days ago

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One or the other of Cabrera/Peralta will have to end up at second and I think it should be Peralta. But Cabrera is probably not going to be an every-day player until 2008, so we will need to sign a stop-gap for next year. This is a great trade. Cabrera reminds me a lot of another defensive-minded shortstop we got from Seattle some time back, and if my memory serves me, he worked out alright. To get someone with Cabrera's potential for a platoon player is a great move by Shapiro. I hope to see more similiar moves over the coming months.

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