The past couple days, there have been some vague, general rumblings of a Brandon Belt trade. We haven’t paid much mind to them because the possibility of a Belt trade is rather low. Belt has a limited no-trade clause that he’s able to modify year-to-year.
Rumor has it, Belt doesn’t want to be traded, so he purposefully fills the clause with contending teams that have an opening at first. The remaining teams tend to be bad teams that aren’t in the market for a pricy first baseman or who have an established first baseman. This stops trade talks before they’re able to begin.