The Indians traded Jody Gerut to the Cubs Monday for outfielder Jason Dubois, who spent most of the season in Chicago before getting sent down to Triple-A Iowa earlier this month. I’m not sure what this trade accomplishes for the Indians, other than the fact that Dubois is a righty and Gerut a lefty. Neither player has played particularly well this year, though Dubois had seven homers in 142 at-bats for the Cubs while Gerut had just one dinger in 135 at-bats. Still, if you’re thinking this is the “right-handed power bat” Mark Shapiro has been talking about getting, think again. Dubois will be nothing more than a right-handed stick off the bench and should also see time in place of Casey Blake, who has been awful all year.
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Looks to me like this is a swap of two pretty bad players, with Dubois being considerably worse than Gerut. According to my fellow Chicagoans, Jason has no business putting on a glove, so maybe he can DH for a while until Travis is back.
Yuck.
Yeah, this move really doesn’t make much sense for the Indians. You’d think Gerut would at least have been more attractive to a team as part of a package deal. Where does Dubois even fit in? I just don’t get it.
The Tribe needs some power. His AAA numbers look pretty good. Gerut seems to have lost all his power, so we’ll see how this plays out.
I was @ the cubs game on wednesday, and Gerut had his first AB. He had a walk, but came around to score, to tie the game for the cubs. Has the guy we gotten done anything yet?