Locked On Guardians - Daily Podcast On The Cleveland Guardians

After a quick look at news around the league, we dive into my top 11 prospects for the Cleveland Indians. The complete rankings with 4K words can be found at Scouting Baseball, where all my written articles can be found. I address some of the comments and concerns about my ranks, explain the why of them as we move from 11 to 1.

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This show is focused on Free Agency with a specific focus on some lesser name players coming out of Japan and Korea who are generating talk and attention. I go through my ideal free agent plan. Explain why it is the Indians should have some money spend. End with a three man list that would make free agency ideal in my belief for the Indians.

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It was a busy day in the league as teams had to make decisions about team options and who they would extend qualifying offers to. It also meant teams like the Indians had to activate players off the 60 day disable list which lead to multiple players being released today across baseball. We look at the most interesting of these, we look at the Indians own moves, and we try and see if anyone let go today could help the Indians tomorrow.

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We talk about news around the league. We discuss why Gold Gloves are dumb even if they got them right by giving them to a pair of Indians. We discuss feedback from the Diamondbacks deals that were mentioned on the podcast. Finally we discuss some minor coaching changes that occured with the Indians last week.

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After being lukewarm on all the talked about deals for the Indians in the NL West. I think I finally struck gold with the Diamondbacks, who are a team who are a partial rebuild at least. They could be a one stop shop for infield, outfield, and relief help for the Indians. The only issue is the one area they are extremely deep in as well is pitching, so we gave to get prospect heavy to get any deal done.

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After more Lindor talk in the media, we revisit and consider what a deal could look like without Gavin Lux. We discuss how a deal involving Keibert Ruiz makes no sense as the Indians cannot afford to trade from an organizational weakness to add to position they have locked up and covered. We try to consider Alex Verdugo and even Joc Pederson as potential centerpieces. Then we go look at the barren waste that is the San Francisco Giants trying to see if there are any potential deals for the Indians there.

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We look at the Dodgers in depth after the rumor came out that they plan to chase Francisco Lindor this offseason. The Indians would have be blown away to make such a deal, so we look at what it would take to blown away in terms of players and prospects from the Dodgers. The Dodgers exceptional depth make them the one team that really stands out in term of a trade partner for the Indians.

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We continue to look at teams across the league to try and figure out if they might be a team that makes sense for the Indians to trade with. We also discuss prospects in general and why my lists end up looking very different than most. Before going back to the Rockies to discuss why they are a mess of a team who might have a few players who would make sense to the Indians.

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It is Friday, so after some catching up on Indians news and articles we dig into the mailbag. We talk about Lindor deals, look for outfielders, and talk up the most interesting player on the Los Angeles Angels that you have likely never heard about all on this Friday's show.

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We start our tour of the majors with the Padres. We talk about what has gone right, Paddack and Tatis, what has not, just about every big money deal, and look at what their needs are. We then try and see if there might be a logically trade down the line between the Padres and Indians. The two organizations have made three deals over the last 16 or so months so it seems like a good bet.

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