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.

Well at least we know the Indians can still beat up on the Royals. Fresh off an embarrassing four-game sweep at the hands of the White Sox, the Indians beat the Royals 6-2 Monday night in five innings. The game was called early due to rain, but not before the Tribe pounded KC starter DJ Carassco for five runs on eight hits in just over two innings of work. Cliff Lee notched his 10th win of the season and Ben Broussard hit his 10th homer of the year in the victory.

Mike Monroe from the San Antonio Express-News is reporting that the Cavs have reached an agreement with Lithuanian point guard Sarunas Jasekevicius. Free-agent movement has really slowed down since the initial Redd/Allen/Hughes/Z frenzy as teams are waiting for the salary cap to be set, so if the Cavs indeed have locked up Jasekevicius, it probably won’t be announced for a while. Still, this is potentially great news as Jasekevicius is a lethal shooter and extraordinary passer who would slide right into the starting lineup. His addition, according to Monroe, would make the Cavs one of the top-three teams in the East and, in an earlier column, Monroe called the Cavs the Spurs of the East. Is that an exaggeration? Maybe, but Danny Ferry certainly deserves a ton of credit for what he’s been able to accomplish this summer.