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I'm not advocating at all that they trade Kipnis. In fact, I was highly critical of the move to put him in CF and felt that Urshela and Diaz hadn't earned the right to play every day. However, with both Tito and Antonetti being non-committal about having Kip return to 2B, I believe it's fair to speculate whether the Tribe will look to deal him this winter.
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It's not that it's impossible Kip gets traded, but we would be selling him cheap cause of a bad year and if Santana resigns and we retain Brantley then I think this group will want to play one more year together before everyone parts ways and with Kipnis having team options his value after a good season, we would be able to get the young arms needed to replace the guys we lost. 50% of the 17 roster will be gone by 19, but we will likely have almost all of them back in 18.
We will keep Kipnis due to loyalty rather than anything else and hope that this core will finish what they started. So guys like Yandy get the short end of the stick. In 19 when that group is gone, then guys like Kipnis may end up getting traded to allow the next group to step in and keep this organization moving forward.