It’s Friday the 13th, but we won’t take that as a bad omen with the first edition of Friday Notes here at Royals Review. After a whirlwind of a winter meetings, I expect things will be pretty quiet now until the first of the year, though I sort of expected things would be pretty quiet to this point after past winters, and that hasn’t been the case, so maybe I actually know nothing. It’s easy to wonder why things are so different this year as compared to the past when there were rumblings of collusion, and I do think some of it is a concerted effort by teams to actually get moving because of those rumblings.