Another terrible trade made by the Indians

 The White Sox were struggling without Nick Madrigal.   They needed a second baseman.   A veteran.   Someone who could help them in the playoffs because that is where they are heading.

I get it.   That's what they need.  

The Indians weren't making the playoffs.   They needed to make room for Andres Gimenez.  

I get it.  That's what the Indians wanted to do.

But I will say this and I'd be willing to say it to Antonneti's  and Chernof's faces.

This was a TERRIBLE baseball trade.   They  traded a veteran second baseman, Gold Glove last year.   Career high in HR this year.  A guy that had a very reasonable option for next year, one without any buyout.  

Basically, if the White Sox wanted it, 1 1/2 seasons of veteran, good production.

We got back a guy who isn't even among the White Sox top 30 prospects.   Nowhere near it.  He is Mason Hickman.  No outstanding stuff.   Nothing to hang your hat on.  

This is the kind of guy who is a throw-in to a trade like this.  Not the trade package in and of himself.

At a time when freaking 7th inning relievers who are rentals are bringing back top 30 prospects and starting players are bringing back THREE top 30 prospects (Joey Gallo), we get a suspect, not a prospect but a suspect 

This is, by far, the worst trade these guys have ever made.   They needed to get something useful back and they got nothing.   They got robbed by a team in their division and they did not make their team better for next year or likely the year after that or maybe ever as the guy they got back is NOT a prospect.  

All they did was save a little money.   

This is the freaking trade deadline.  Teams pay dearly in prospects for guys who they want and even more dearly if those guys are controllable and reasonably priced for more than just this year.   That was Hernandez.

The problem with sports writers is that none of them wants to bite the hand that feeds them so they won't ask the tough questions.

But if one of them had the balls they should ask these losers why, in the face of what other teams are getting for lesser players and less controllable players why they got so little for Hernandez when they traded him to a division rival and one with a need.   And don't give me this crap of that is all the market would bring.   If that is the case you just hold onto Hernandez or trade him outside the division.

And while that sportswriter is at it, why not ask him about the widely accepted rumor that they could have gotten more for Lindor/Carrasco from Toronto than what they got from the Mets.   

So much for threading the needle.   These guys are idiots.  They are killing this team.   They need to do better than this.   WAY better.