Grade the Corey Kluber trade

Dec 16 2019 by Lone Star Ball

 
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What grade would you give the Corey Kluber trade?

The Texas Rangers traded Emmanuel Clase and Delino DeShields to the Cleveland Indians for Corey Kluber and $500,000 (half of the $1 million assignment bonus Kluber got for being traded) today. Kluber is owed $17.5 million for 2020, and has a vesting option for 2021 for $18 million that kicks in if he throws 160 innings in 2020.

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