LIVE VIDEO & BLOG: Indians Talk Trade
CLEVELAND– The Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Reds and Arizona Diamondbacks completed a three-team trade on Tuesday night.
Wednesday afternoon, Indians General Manager Chris Antonetti, will be talking about the trade.
The Indians acquired right-handed pitchers Trevor Bauer, Matt Albers and Bryan Shaw from the Diamondbacks and outfielder Drew Stubbs from the Reds in exchange for Shin-Soo Choo, infielder Jason Donald, pitcher Tony Sipp and Lars Anderson and cash.
Antonetti: best way to improve pitching is to improve defense.
Antonetti: more outfield alternatives that could be good fits for us.. not sure that will come to fruition for us. We’ll have to see how it plays out.
Antonetti: we have two outfielders both capable of playing the center field.
Antonetti: I want to make sure we’re in a better position to score.. that’s our focus.
Antonetti: Shaw’s a guy we’ve known about since the draft.. had an interest in him for awhile.
Antonetti: Choo will be a difficult guy to replace.
Antonetti: we would still like to improve our starting pitching. We think we started to accomplish that yesterday with Trevor.
Antonetti speaking about Trevor (Bauer): we have a comfortable level with him. Trevor has made some adjustments since he was drafted.
Antonetti: our preference is two-team deals. In this case, it came together relatively quickly.
Antonetti: we wanted to focus on guys on the Major League level. All the guys we got spent time in the Major League last year.
Chris Antonetti: we gave up a very good player in Shin-Soo Choo. We feel we were able to get good guys.
Antonetti: the way we look to improve is going to come from guys getting better, guys already on roster.. bringing guys from outside to help guys already here.