Rather than splitting these up across multiple posts, it seemed prudent to combine them and save us all a little time and effort. Consider it my early Christmahanakwanzika gift to you. The Cubs set the baseball world ablaze on Friday with a huge swing to land Kyle Tucker from the Astros, but they’re far from done with the offseason. The pitching staff still needs a little shoring up and they figure to be dealing at least one more of their regular position players in order to clear some roster space and/or salary.
Let’s turn first to Nico Hoerner, whose name was most prominent in early trade rumors connecting him to the Mariners and A’s.