cleveland.com/Shaw - Indians tradition: Summer garage sale

The Indians are becoming accomplished in maximizing the trade value of their assets during failed seasons. That’s the organizational upside and downside all in one unembraceable bottom line. Better that lack of opportunity leaves Mark Shapiro less gifted in this means of roster building.

Last year it was early July with C.C. Sabathia as the family heirloom in an estate sale. This time around it’s the more modestly priced Mark DeRosa hung on a garage rack in late June. “I don’t think it’s the way anybody envisioned it happening,” closer Kerry Wood said Sunday when asked if he thought the DeRosa trade was the first public notice of a second consecutive White (Flag) Sale at Progressive Field.
“I can’t speak to that,” said Wood. “I just know it’s a direct result of how we’ve played this season.”