There you are, sitting on your couch enjoying coffee, spending the painfully long Major League Baseball offseason dreaming of the best-case scenarios for your favorite team. We have reached February, and this upcoming Monday will mark three full months since the Houston Astros clinched their World Series title.
It has been 138 days since Elly De La Cruz played his last professional game in the states. Matt McLain hit behind him that day for Chattanooga, too. 138 days is an awful long time for all things to coagulate while nothing baseball-wise actually happens to disrupt things. Despite that stasis, the dawn of each new year brings back Prospect Ranking Season™, and when all your franchise has to rest upon is prospects, well, it’s easy to put a bit too much emphasis on moves and shakes that occur after four-plus months of inaction.