It has been a weird offseason. Cleveland dangled Francisco Lindor before realizing it’s good to have good players on your team. Boston has made clear they want to cut payroll and have potentially-maybe-possibly offered up the actual second best player in baseball in Mookie Betts to avoid a dastardly arbitration payout. And the Chicago Cubs, the onetime future dynasty that was going to dominate baseball for a decade, is apparently prepared to trade a guy that was supposed to be a cornerstone of that presumptive dynasty.
Yes, Kris Bryant. The 2015 Rookie of the Year and 2016 NL MVP is coming off some injury-hampered seasons, and projected to make $18.