Cleveland Indians running away with Mike Clevinger trade

Cleveland Indians running away with Mike Clevinger trade

Last season on August 31 the Cleveland Indians and San Diego Padres agreed to a trade that involved a total of nine players, seeing the Tribe receive six and the Padres get three. While the Padres acquired Mike Clevinger as the big name of the deal at the time, Cleveland is the one looking like the winners of the exchange at this point. In case you need a refresher, here’s what the entire trade looked like.

From the perspective of the Padres, Clevinger only pitched four games for the club before exiting during last year’s playoffs with an injury that resulted in him having Tommy John surgery and missing all of what will be the 2021 season. He did sign a extension, though, that will keep him in San Diego for 2022 at the very least.

As for Greg Allen, he played all of one game for San Diego during the 2020 season before becoming a free agent and signing with the New York Yankees. As a Padre, Allen went 0-for-1 in four plate appearances with two walks, a stolen base and a run scored.

The lack of production from Clevinger and Allen doesn’t make it hard for the Cleveland Indians to be winning this deal up to this point, but even so, the players that the Tribe received are playing rather well. Four of the six players have already made their debut in Cleveland and the other two are high on the prospect list and should make their mark in the relatively near future.

While Cleveland could use Clevinger right now in their rotation, the injury to Clevinger paired with the production of the players received by Cleveland in the deal make the trade seem like the Tribe are running away as the winners of the agreement less than a year later.