If the headline seems familiar, it’s probably because you heard pretty much the same thing back in late August. That’s when ESPN’s Jeff Passan put out a premature hot stove Q&A that included his report that “a number of executives are expecting monster names to be in trade talks.” He then went on to list Kris Bryant, Francisco Lindor, and Mookie Betts as the monsters in question.
Nothing much has changed on that front in the weeks since, though MLB Network’s Jon Morosi reinforced it Monday morning via Twitter.