With the Cubs off last night, there was plenty of time to channel all of our baseball anxiety into the trade rumors that continue to fly around like Donald Trumps hair in a hurricane. Some of those rumors even became reality, as we saw with two players linked to the Cubs in different ways.
Scott Kazmir (long thought to be a Cubs target) was moved to the surprisingly competitive Houston Astros for couple of prospects and former Cub Aramis Ramirez was traded from Milwaukee back to Pittsburgh, the city in which his big league career began. It was really cool to see the general warm fuzzies from people about the latter move, though I could have done without seeing “full circle” so often.