Liar or idiot or both

 It's simple.   Chris Antonetti is either an idiot or a liar.

1. I am making an assumption here.   The article in the PD says there wasn't a market for second baseman among contenders.  Well, the Giants have 33 year old journeyman Donovan Solano with his .672 OPS and two stolen bases playing second base.   I am pretty sure that the Giants could use an upgrade at second base.

2. "....we're happy to make a decision that is in our best interest."  This one could go either way.  The idiot or liar part, that is.  Two things here:

(a) The Indians are in deep trouble with their 40-man roster this year.   They will likely have to put guys on the 40-man this winter who won't help them next year but are likely candidates to get selected in the Rule 5 draft (and not returned) if the Indians don't roster them.  Frankly, they have no extra roster spots.

(b) Konnor Pilkington, who they got in the trade for Hernandez and who looks like Logan Allen part deux, has to be rostered this winter or we could lose him in the Rule 5, too.

(c) The Indians just drafted 18 college pitchers in this draft and so they are not in need of another college pitcher, especially one that isn't even good enough to be in the White Sox top 30 prospects.

The big question here is whether the Indians even knew that Pilkington has to be rostered this winter.   Given what we saw when the Indians gave Jake Bauers WAY too many chances to try to justify the really bad Yandy Diaz trade, Pilkington will be rostered this winter even though he may not deserve it, given who else the Indians have to roster.   No way will Antonetti allow himself to lose face by losing Pilkington in the Rule 5 draft after trading Hernandez for him.   Count on some guy who we really want to keep end up being lost in the Rule 5 due to rostering Pilkington.

 So, Antonetti lied about teams not needing second basemen.   He is a liar or an idiot for saying this trade was in the Indians best interest and he is an idiot for taking a pitcher who has to be rostered this winter into an organization that doesn't have any roster spots to waste and doesn't need any more college pitchers.  On top of that he is an idiot for trading Hernandez to the best team in the division.

We saved $1.8 million by trading Hernandez.   That is what this is really about.  That is on Dolan.  Not getting anything worth anything back for Hernandez is on Antonetti and Chernof.  This following the low return we got for Lindor/Carrasco tells me these guys are not doing their job when we are trading guys to cut budget.

Oh, BTW, any writer ask Antonetti why we over $150,000 left on our draft budget and what the plans were to spend the money to improve the organization which, of course, would be in the organization's "best interest".  Or what about the rumor that Toronto offered the Indians more than the Mets for Lindor?

Look, this is my team.   I have rooted for them for over 60 years.   These guys are not doing their jobs.  Nor is Dolan.   Anyone think that Tito jumped ship because he saw that?  You gotta ask yourself, right?