What's your guess?

Well we are about to get to the meat of the offseason: the winter meetings.

Unfortunately this year, for me, these meetings are more about dread than expectation.

There have been several rumors about the Indians trying to package Jason Kipnis with a starting pitcher.

Of course, the upshot of that is that we would get a Yan Gomes-(or worse, relatively)-like return for that starting pitcher.

Effectively it would giving up our second all-star this winter without helping the 2019 team or, likely, the team in the future.

This rumor, of course, brings out every blogging idiot saying "Hey, man, I think we could steal Trevor Bauer from the Indians because they need to slash salary".  I know that all I have to do is stop reading these bloggers to stop the pain of reading these bloggers.   That being said, it is just painful to see that the rest of the baseball world sees the Indians as a team they can steal good players from.

So, what's your vote: Will we try to include Kipnis at the cost of not getting even return back from the team we trade the starting pitcher to?

Given all the other STUPID moves this off-season, none of which help the Indians at all unless they catch lightning in a bottle (I guess if you throw enough crap against the wall SOME of it will stick), my guess is that the Indians will try to include Kipnis and be happy with whatever trash they get back.  That is, another salary dump.

For a team that has won 3 AL Central titles in a row, it is almost incomprehensible to say this but this off-season is truly a depressing time to be an Indains' fan!