Initially, when New York Yankees fans heard teams had called Brian Cashman about a Jazz Chisholm Jr. trade, they probably said to themselves, "not surprising, Jazz is a great player and it doesn't seem as if a contract extension is anywhere close right now, if it's even going to happen at all."
The buzz got so loud, in fact, that Cashman addressed it all with the media this week. Then, some of us might've sat back and said, "Hmmm ... wait a second ..."
Why? Because a contending team with one of the highest payrolls in the sport should never be on anybody's call list about an offseason trade for an All-Star rental player.