Did son of Indians GM leak news of Francisco Lindor contract talks?
Note to Cleveland Indians general manager Mike Chernoff: letting your son on the radio might not have been the best idea.
6-year-old Brody Chernoff was a special guest in the radio booth in the 9th inning of the team’s Saturday spring training game against the Chicago White Sox. Tribe play-by-play man Tom Hamilton couldn’t help but ask the youngster a few questions, including one about whether he’d heard his dad trying to make any deals.
Brody’s honest response may have caught Hamilton by surprise.
“He’s trying to get, um, (Francisco) Lindor to play for seven more years,” Brody said, via ESPN.
Hamilton could only laugh, joking that “we’d better not talk anymore.”
On a serious note, it’s perfectly logical that Cleveland would be trying to lock Lindor up long-term. He’s one of baseball’s premier young stars, and keeping him on a contending Cleveland team long-term on a controlled cost by buying out his arbitration years would make a lot of sense. Plus, if Lindor can get a good deal, maybe he can use that money to impress his crush in addition to setting down in Cleveland for a few years.
