The Dodgers Should Put a Realmuto Trade Behind Them

Baseball’s stove, once metaphorically lit and active, cooled down back to dormant during the holidays. Yusei Kikuchi signed with the Mariners but, outside of that move, the world was forced to wait. In typical fashion, the offseason is starting to come back with rumors that push the metaphor from ‘stove’ to ‘volcano’ and it is just a matter of time before it erupts. The Dodgers want to be the reason why.

That right there is where the predicament starts: the Dodgers want to be the team that starts the eruption, the team that signs Bryce Harper or the team that trades for JT Realmuto. For a moment, it felt like the Dodgers, typically cautious spenders and traders, wanted to forget every…