4. Free Agents Anyone?
MLB.com today speculated that now with the Winter Meetings over, the Indians will comb the market looking to fill the huge void they have in the outfield.
While that need can be met with a big deal for Kluber or Bauer still (or even Yonder Alonso), the site says there’s a couple names to keep your eye on that the Indians might look at.
Those names include Marwin Gonzalez, Nick Markakis and Adam Jones. None of those guys are going to make anyone run out and buy a ticket season plan, but at the end of the day they fill a void this team sorely needs.
Jones would be a perfect fit at the right price, as last year he hit .281 with 15 homers and 63 RBI for the awful Orioles.
Though those numbers were down from his usual performance, the Indians might get a guy who is motivated to get his career back on track.
Gonzalez hit .248 with 16 homers and 68 RBI in Houston last year at 29 years old, and Markakis in Atlanta might be the most expensive of the bunch, as he hit .293 with 14 homers and 93 RBI at 34 years old.
Expect to hear some (by baseball terms) inexpensive names that for both the pen and outfield, as the Indians front office will do what they can to fill the voids this team still has.
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