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Chernoff on Lucroy as backup: ‘Crazy to us’
- Updated: August 4, 2016
CLEVELAND — For a brief moment, it looked like the Indians were going to beef up their backstop with a premier catcher at the Trade Deadline. And then, the moment was gone.
Over the weekend, the Indians and Brewers reportedly agreed to a trade to bring in Jonathan Lucroy to the first-place Tribe. Lucroy then exercised his no-trade clause and vetoed the deal before getting sent to Texas the following day.
“I mean, it was his decision,” Indians general manager Mike Chernoff said in an interview on MLB Network Radio. “We made the trade at two in the morning on late Saturday night/Sunday morning. I guess he made the decision on Sunday morning that he didn’t want to accept the trade. I couldn’t tell you why he made that decision.”
Many reports stated that the reason Lucroy vetoed the move was due to the uncertainty regarding playing time in the 2017 season. However, Chernoff told MLB Network Radio that …
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