They werent' going to pay top price for a C that is likely to be a backup to Naylor and they aren't going to "platoon" Bo either. If Naylor and Lavastida both fall flat then that's when they'll be more aggressive trying to acquire a C. It doesn't make sense to spend your most valuable, upper level prospects on a player that very possibly could be less than what you're giving up.
I don't believe for one second that they are going to extend Bieber. They tried and he wasn't having it. His thoughts around an extension might have changed with his injury, but he isn't worth what he was then IMO. I can see Gimenez being offered and accepting a deal, but that won't happen until after next season if he performs as he has this year. I love Amed, but he isn't a longterm fit for this team. The fact that he is not only providing us with good play, but driving his value up is awesome for this organization. Civale and Plesac don't have the talent to remain in Cleveland's rotation longterm. They are going to get steamrolled by the pitching talent coming up.
Anybody can't sit back and armchair quarterback prospects. There's literally hundreds of them in every organization. Just keep your eye on the ones that matter. They have a high probability of finding ML success.
Funny how some are willing to trade the toolsy prospects for MLB upgrades that were "toolsy prospects" themselves. There isn't a market inefficiency or some of these prospects would have been dealt. Amed would have been dealt, but there wasn't a market for him. Plesac would have been dealt, but there obviously wasn't a market for him either. We can all say we would have done this or done that, but how do you know they didn't try to do that and there were no takers or the offers were shit?
Other than a RHH, big 1B bat that can rotate with Naylor at DH what would they even target right now? The OF is going to consist of some sort of mix between Kwan, Straw, Jones, OGon, Benson, Brennan and Valera. 3B is fairly secure I'd say. MIF is loaded. C has 2 very good, near ready prospects that could probably outperform the current duo now. They don't have a SP that reaches FA until 2025 with all of Espino, Williams, Bibee, Cantillo, Morris, Battenfield, Allen, Curry, Burns, Hankins and Pilkington all in the upper levels developing quickly. For the most part these are not run of the mill SP prospects either.
Production is coming from all sorts of players. It's why OGon(118) and Jones(115) are carrying OPS+'s right there with Kwan's(118). Hopefully Benson can follow suit because if he can then hold on to your shit because he's more talented than Kwan, OGon, and Jones. Yep, he could fail, but he could also explode and you have to find out while in the current state of affairs which is fucking finding out what your prospects can do. Talent matters. It always has and it always will, but that doesn't mean they can't draft better skilled kids too.