As a general rule, I take it easy this time of year to give myself a chance to recharge a little after publishing nearly 700 posts over the course of the year. Some of those require very little mental effort, but that’s still a lot. Add in the several hundred others I edit and you can see why I might want to step back now and then. It sure doesn’t help that the Cubs have been so quiet lately.
All they’ve done of note over the last week or so is send Matt Mervis to Miami in exchange for versatile defender Vidal Bruján, which on the surface looks like a watered-down challenge trade.