Kovacevic: This Reynolds thing needs to -- and will, I believe -- get done

BRADENTON, Fla. -- This whole Bryan Reynolds thing sure doesn't seem to bugging the subject matter himself.

Rolling up Roberto Clemente Memorial Drive into Pirate City on this Monday morning in his Tennessee-plated, titanic truck, he cast a big, broad smile in this direction as I'd been crossing that same street to cover the Pirates' first full-squad workout of spring training. And once inside at his stall, following a brief breakfast, he seemed to be no less ... Reynolds.

"I feel great. Really," he'd tell me.

So, the contract stalemate, the trade request, all that?