The Indians have led the way in a number of areas....including being one of the first to choose extending key young talent to guarantee expense and continuity thru arbitration years. Also, their continuity of vision in the FO as another example.
One could easily say that they MUST find innovative, off normal ways to build a team so as to take advantage of value and stay competitive.
With that said, a point of value definitely is pitching and our abilities there. I would add, we seem to have a broad number of potentially talented shortstops.....finding value in other team's and using ours to garner theirs is something I could support.