Social media is no different from the playground in elementary school, with hearsay traveling like wildfire across a windswept plain in the summer. There’s little room for context and you can forget about the fidelity of translation when a rumor or report has touched four different hands before some pundit’s feverish fingers tap out a communiqué before their colleagues can. And god forbid this is all happening while traversing the lobby of the Hilton Anatole on the trail of another scoop, leading to words being crafted with slightly less care than usual.
Ken Rosenthal was the first to mention that the Astros were interested in Seiya Suzuki as part of a Kyle Tucker deal, but he immediately tempered that report by saying the Cubs were “highly unlikely” to trade him.