Inbox: Addressing all Castellanos deal angles

DETROIT -- It's time to dust off the snow and scrape off the ice to open the Inbox again as Spring Training approaches.

Unless the market begins to move once Bryce Harper signs, or trade talks suddenly pick up, I would be very surprised if Nicholas Castellanos is traded by Spring Training. As general manager Al Avila said last week, the interest just hasn't been there so far, in part because of the stagnant free-agent market. There is a much better chance that the Tigers will trade Castellanos during the summer, depending on contenders' needs.

Most teams have known or sensed that for a while. Those that weren't sure could look at the Tigers' impetus to trade him and how many potentially…