Tribe Winter Hot Stove Thread

• HitsRus

  

  It would seem Chris Antonetti would have a lot to to this off season...a huge hole to fill @ third base...questions about the rotation...the POS that we have at second.....question marks at first....will Grady and Carlos Santana be ready come opening day?
  
  It's enough to make the rookie GM prematurely gray.
  
  Not to worry... Ownership will provide whatever he needs ( heh heh)
  http://cleveland.indians.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20101116&content_id=16118700&vkey=news_cle&c_id=cle
  
  To properly frame the discussion consider this...it may explain a lot!
  
  
  
  
  seperated by birth---credit today's Plain Dealer.
• wes_mantooth

  

  I heard on KNR the other day that Santana will be fine by opening day, but there are several in the organization that are concerned about Grady. I am very interested on what they do about Choo contract wise...if they trade him to salary dump this coming year, I will never spend one dollar at that stadium again....until the Dolans sell.
• HitsRus

  

  The Tribe is suposedly 'grooming' Jayson Nix for 3B...and has outrighted Andy Marte to AAA Columbus. He is now a free agent.
  
  Anthony Reyes...coming off Tommy John... surgery has been signed..... Reportedly throwing 96 on the radar gun.
• HitsRus

  

  The Tribe has control on Choo for his 3 arbitration years...thru 2013.
  http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20101101&content_id=15932444&vkey=news_cle&c_id=cle
  
  As his agent is Scott Boras...it appears unlikely that Choo can be extended beyond that.