Most of us are familiar with the saying, “Nothing is certain but death and taxes,” a phrase attributed to Benjamin Franklin.
Everything about that, however, is wrong. For starters, while Franklin famously used this phrase in a letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy in 1789, the line has its origins — at least, as far as we can tell — in Christopher Bullock’s 1716 play The Cobbler of Preston. More importantly — and more relevantly, I might add — the quote leaves out of one modern life’s other certainties: Clint Frazier trade rumors.
It has seemed that, ever since Clint Frazier donned the Yankees uniform for the first time, he has been involved in trade rumors, and 2019 is no exception.