Guessing at the return from the Taijuan Walker trade: CLUE edition

Photo by Mark Blinch/Getty ImagesAs a kid, I loved playing the board game Clue, using the process of elimination to solve the mystery. As an adult, that has transformed into a love of mystery novels and logic puzzles, the kind where you have to figure out where everyone in a room is sitting based on a few clues. Lately, my favorite game has been trying to guess at the return for Taijuan Walker from the Blue Jays based on a few clues leaked by the team.

Like any good detective, let’s start with the facts:

-The rules for this weird little season state that any player traded has to be in a team’s player pool (also called, semi-erroneously, the “taxi squad”). Teams have circumnavigated this rule…