With the December 2nd deadline and the Rule 5 draft having passed, the next major baseball event is the mid-January deadline players have to file for salary arbitration. One can say now that the hot stove season has begun. It may be a long one that will require patience. Many players are available as free agents after the cavalcade of recent non-tenders. We still don’t know what the rules for 2021 will be, specifically whether there will be a designated hitter in the National League and what the size of the active rosters are. We don’t know the size of the playoff field.
NL Central 2020 Offseason Moves and 2021 Outlook: Chicago Cubs
