The Cleveland Indians traded two-time Cy Young Award winner Corey Kluber to the Texas Rangers on Sunday. Four-and-a-half months ago, they traded away Trevor Bauer. That's a lot of constructive innings gone in the name of whatever tomorrow will be for the Indians, winners of 93 games in 2019 and yet apparently willing – if not enthusiastically so – to get on with the next version of themselves. The last version was pretty good.
Kluber, the stoic right-hander who lost much of 2019 to a fractured arm and, during his recovery from that, an abdominal strain, was in many ways the solemn face of an Indians revival that had them win three consecutive American League Central titles and play in a World Series.