Things are just getting a little too ludicrous as far as rumors go these days and it has got to be due to the lack of trades. For those expecting or demanding to see some player movement, I suppose we have Josh Donaldson to blame. His refusal to accept any of the contract offers that have floated past him has put 30 front offices into the baseball equivalent of the Dark Ages.
I suppose the decision on the Kris Bryant grievance is another reason — and shame on us for expecting an arbitrator to work through the holidays — but the two stories have been welded together all winter, and so we wait.