The offseason is going especially slow this year, with but a few trades and signings scattered throughout to keep us going. What the reason for it is, no one seems to know for sure. It could be the front offices are not really seeing anyone they really want to add to their team. It could just be that they are all waiting out the market.
One thing the slow winter has lead to is rumors, more specifically the rise of old ones you were hoping were dead by now. Over the weekend, a story came out of Boston that earlier in the offseason, the Dodgers had approached the Red Sox for a trade that would have sent Yasiel Puig to Boston in exchange for Jackie Bradley Jr.