Welcome to trade season, where most of the next 2½ will be spent sifting through speculation to find nuggets of truth. So let’s start with a Dodgers rumor floated Thursday — the club is interested in Orioles closer Zach Britton, per Jon Heyman of FanRag Sports.
Britton is one of the game’s best closers, and would form a dynamic duo with Kenley Jansen in the back end of the Dodgers bullpen. This wouldn’t be a new tactic for the Dodgers front office, who agreed to a deal with the Reds at the 2015 winter meetings for Aroldis Chapman, only to back out when news of his domestic violence incident surfaced, one for which he was suspended 30 games to start 2016.