Wahoo's on First » carl crawford http://wahoosonfirst.com A Cleveland Indians Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Sun, 19 May 2013 11:00:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 What Red Sox, Dodgers’ Trade Means for Small-Market Teams http://wahoosonfirst.com/2012/08/28/what-red-sox-dodgers-trade-means-for-small-market-teams/ http://wahoosonfirst.com/2012/08/28/what-red-sox-dodgers-trade-means-for-small-market-teams/#comments Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:12:17 +0000 Lewie Pollis http://wahoosonfirst.com/?p=5467 Everyone knows that baseball is unbalanced. Richer teams can hold onto their homegrown players, sign the biggest stars as free agents, and stay afloat when their big investments go belly-up. Eating or taking on salary leads to better returns in trades, and most fans in big markets probably have no idea what the word “rebuilding” means. There’s a reason the most influential baseball book of this generation was subtitled The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. (more…)

]]> http://wahoosonfirst.com/2012/08/28/what-red-sox-dodgers-trade-means-for-small-market-teams/feed/ 0 No, Indians Won’t Trade for Carl Crawford and John Lackey http://wahoosonfirst.com/2011/10/20/no-indians-wont-trade-for-carl-crawford-and-john-lackey/ http://wahoosonfirst.com/2011/10/20/no-indians-wont-trade-for-carl-crawford-and-john-lackey/#comments Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:00:08 +0000 Lewie Pollis http://deepleftfield.com/?p=2248 I consider myself fairly open-minded when it comes to ideas about transactions MLB teams could make. Even if I don’t think an idea is likely to happen I like to give it some thought, and I’m usually the last one to dismiss a deal as impossible. Heck, I wanted the Indians to sign Adam Dunn last winter (oops) and trade for Jose Reyes this summer.

That being said, I can’t bring myself to think that the deal the News-Herald‘s Jim Ingraham suggested the Indians make Wednesday is either possible or desirable. Citing the turmoil in the Red Sox organization after their historic September collapse—”There’s blood in the water in Boston,” he writes—Ingraham thinks the Indians should trade for Carl Crawford and John Lackey.

It’s an interesting idea, but don’t get your hopes up, Tribe fans: it would be all but impossible for Cleveland to work out such a deal with the Red Sox.

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