MESA, Ariz. – Before meeting with the Cubs in December, then-free agent Dansby Swanson read through a packet his agents put together on the team, jotting down notes as he went.
“It was an important meeting for both parties,” Swanson said. “It was important to be prepared going into meetings and to understand fully what I could potentially be getting myself into.”
He’d taken that kind of approach with every team he considered, looking up and down prospect lists, digging into player performance, finding out how many games individuals played – that was a big one for Swanson, who played all 162 games on the Braves’ schedule last year.