Winter Meetings Rumor Thread

There were a lot of little tidbits that punched out of this week’s Winter Meetings chatter. It’ll take a lot of work to get through it all, and it will feel dumb to dedicate a full post to any one because they’re rumors.

Also, roundtables are a good way to mitigate all of us lacking the desire to write on our own.

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Let's make a deal!: Kicking around trade targets, ideas, laments

We’ve posited some free agent ideas, but ever since our legendary offseason plan last year to trade Hector Santiago for Lucas Duda, which would have totally killed, I’ve thought us overdue to concoct some fun trade packages for some of the guys available on the market.

Since inevitably someone is going to be a snot and say “I don’t even like that guy,” let’s do multiple players.

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White Sox upgrading at third base

I've seen them.

I've seen your off-season plans, filled with free agent third baseman acquisitions.

Have no doubt I have tabulated these blasphemies against CONOR and taken them into account. Dreams of Chase Headley's defense, fantasies of Pablo Escobar panda hats with increased lining for 40-degree temperatures in June. Crackpots schemes of moving Hanley Ramirez to third.

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