If you live in the Midwest and have been blanketed by this weekend’s heavy, wet snow, there’s no better time to dream about Spring Training and summer baseball. If the timeline remains as scheduled, pitchers and catchers will start to report in the next 2-3 weeks. We should start seeing more player quotes soon, and at some point manager David Ross will climb out of hibernation to spin this offseason as positively as possible.
You’ve got to hand it to the Cubs, though. They’ve actually made the acquisitions of Joc Pederson, Kohl Stewart, and Trevor Williams — the latter of which Cubs Insider broke — sound exciting.