Let's Go Tribe · Jan 13, 2018
Francisco Lindor doesn’t need to give a discount
A specter looms over the Cleveland Indians as spring training approaches. It’s somewhere between an expectation and a dire hope, among fans as well as the front office, that they’ll sign shortstop Francisco Lindor to an extension of some kind. As is the way with the Indians since the early ‘90s with Sandy Alomar and Carlos Baerga, they want to buy out those yucky arbitration years so nobody has to spend a day in a conference room explaining why the player is terrible, and get a few cheap free agent years too. Lindor is the best position player they’ve had in a long, long time. They want to lock him up long term. He has no reason to agree to this.