Revisiting the MLBTR Archives: January 2013

Upton. (Norm Hall/Getty)We’re in a new month — well, we’re almost out of the new month now, but close enough — and that means it’s time for another jaunt through the MLB Trade Rumors archives. January is typically the slow time of the offseason. That is especially true this year. In a “normal” offseason, all the big free agents would be off the board by now, and teams would spend January making minor tweaks and upgrades. Nothing crazy.

That was the case back in January 2013. The Yankees handled all their major offseason business in the first few weeks of the offseason, most notably re-signing Mariano Rivera, Andy Pettitte, and Hiroki Kuroda. They lost Alex Rodriguez to hip surgery in…