The winter solstice has come and gone, meaning our days are going to grow longer for the next six months. Of course, the Cubs’ methodical offseason pace has been slowing time down for many of us over the last several weeks already. And unless Jed Hoyer has something up his sleeve, the holidays could bog the pace down even further.
We should get an inflection point in the new year, with Tatsuya Imai‘s January 2 deadline serving as a potential springboard to other moves in both free agency and trades. That’s particularly true for the Cubs, who appear to have prioritized the righty from Japan this winter.