Dodgers shortstop Trea Turner is in the last year of his contract, and he’s expected to be one of the biggest shortstop targets in this offseason’s free-agent class, along with Dansby Swanson and (if they opt out of their current contracts) Xander Bogaerts and Carlos Correa.
One team that might be looking for a long-term shortstop is the Chicago Cubs, which has Gordon Wittenmyer of NBC Sports Chicago thinking about what the Cubs would have to do to land Turner.
But he knows this much when it comes to the Cubs, if Jed Hoyer reaches out trying to make a connection this winter:
He’d need to hear Hoyer’s so-far elusive plan and even-more-elusive timeline for his Rebuild That Shall Not Be Named.