You’ll be forgiven for calling the headline clickbait because it’s a real doozy that lays out a highly unlikely scenario. It’s the product of some potentially odd phrasing in a conversation between Bruce Levine and Matt Spiegel on 670 The Score’s Inside the Clubhouse, so take that for what it’s worth. Levine had just finished laying out some specific names being discussed between the Cards and Rockies in a Nolan Arenado trade before turning to the Cubs’ reported interest.
Bruce Levine just reported on the radio that the deal discussed between the Cards and Rockies has been:
Dakota Hudson, Carlos Martinez, Tyler O'Neill and Matt Liberatore for Nolan Arenado
— FullCountTommy (@FullCountTommy) January 11, 2020
“Could the Cubs end up with Arenado, and would that automatically mean that Bryant goes somewhere else?