Usually at this time of the winter baseball is in peak downtime. However, that’s only true for you this year if your favorite team resides inside the NL Central.
- The Reds are slashing payroll and to the naked eye look to be tanking;
- The Pirates traded their best player to the Nationals, a move that means Washington is probably no longer interested in Kris Bryant, though they may not have been to begin with;
- The Brewers are taking a page from the book Frugality for Idiots, copyright 2018-20 Chicago Cubs;
- For fans of Chicago’s North Side baseball team, the Cubs could kickstart a rebuild of their own by trading their best pitcher and staff ace, Yu Darvish.