The World Series ended three weeks ago. Ever since, it's been all quiet on the baseball front.
Unless, of course, you count all the hot stove chatter.
There's been no shortage of that, as we've reached the point where we have to worry about when the folks at MLB Trade Rumors last slept. The rumors and reports have been coming fast and furious enough to literally (and figuratively) spin your head.
What we're here to do is zoom out and look at the chatter from a wide perspective and discuss the key hot stove takeaways—one of which is only kinda-sorta a hot stove topic, but worth discussing anyway—of the first weeks of the offseason.