Cleveland Indians: 6 moves Tribe should make to win World Series in 2020

4. Do not trade Francisco

Francisco Lindor is under club control for two more seasons and he and his agent have shown no desire to sign an extension, although Cleveland.com’s Paul Hoynes believes the Tribe will try again to extend their All-Star shortstop this offseason.

Lindor will likely rebuff their offer, meaning Tribe fans will be stressing out about how cheap the franchise is. Hopefully, Paul Dolan keeps his “Enjoy him” comments to himself, because words like this don’t help and only make the fan base more neurotic.

With the expectation Lindor doesn’t re-up, then the Indians will have to take a serious look at the trade market. Antonetti and Chernoff will do their due diligence, but in the end, they’ve got to keep him.

I want to win a World Series.

Players like Francisco Lindor can help get it done. Trading him away lessens the Indians chances of ending their 71-year World Championship drought.

Sure, the Indians didn’t make the postseason, but the state of the Tribe doesn’t feel as bleak as it did last October, when an aging Tribe was bounced from the playoff by the Astros.

The Tribe found some young help in the form of Oscar Mercado and Jordan Luplow, who crushes left-handed pitching. The youth movement on the mound is the real reason the window to win remains opens.

And as long as the Tribe can compete for the postseason, every Tribe fan in town should want Francisco Lindor on their team, even if that means he plays out his contract and then walks.

The Tribe will get a compensatory pick if he signs somewhere else. Sure, that pales in comparison to what he’d get you in a trade right now, but who cares. We’ve got two years. Let’s win the World Series.