When is wishful thinking an appropriate perspective from which to hypothesize about potential Major League Baseball trades? Oh, basically never. Heck, definitely never.
But if nobody minds indulging us at least for a little while, we're going to do it anyway.
Ahead are eight trades that we just plain want to happen in 2023. This is not a list of predictions. It is blatantly a wish list based on what we think would be cool pairings of players and teams, though it was with some reluctance that we paused to ponder the likelihood of each deal we dreamed up.