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morning and welcome to episode looking it up right now one thirty five of

effectively wild the daily podcast from baseball prospectus I'm Sam Miller in

Long Beach California I'm here with Ben Lindbergh in New York New York we have

a very full podcast a full house today we're joined by both Matthew Cory and

Paul Spor who are joining us from separate residences to talk about the Cleveland

Indians we will later in the show also be hearing from Jordan Beston from MLB.com

perfect so we're talking about the Cleveland Indians Matt I just wonder if you

could give us sort of the overview or I guess your general assessment of the

Indians offseason and where they are in the competitive cycle of these of the

windows and having one windows is tough I I think their offseason was I don't

know how to describe it in one word but you know they went out and picked up

Nick Swisher and I think you can use why would you why would you do it in one

word did he did he say I don't know so please please use more words yes thank you

all right go on sentences okay yes they they lost a couple guys in Shinsu Chu

who they traded and Travis Haffner who they let go to the Yankees and they

picked up Nick Swisher on a four-year 56-million-dollar contract I

believe and that's those are really the big moves other than that they've

kind of they're trying to bring guys up from the minor leagues and they're

trying to they've got a you know a young lineup and they're trying to

incorporate those players Lonnie Chishol and you know Jason Kitten is Michael

Brantley etc etc into their lineup and I think that's the plan going forward is

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