Let’s start beating this drum right now.
As April begins to sift the good teams from the bad, trade candidates will start to arise. It’s too early to say definitively, when playoff teams like the Yankees, Twins, and Astros are in last place of their respective divisions after 2.5 weeks of play, but some teams are surely taking long hard looks in the mirror and wondering what’s next.
Those teams may have been easy to predict from the jump, like the Diamondbacks or the Rockies, but at 7-9 on the season it seems the Nationals may already feel their season slipping away, per mlb.