So the vaunted Winter Meetings turned out to have been a massive time-suck, completely useless from my point of view. It wouldn’t be a surprise for me at this point if the Cubs signed nobody at all.

It’s going to take a hell of a lot to mollify me or even to start to allay my misgivings. It’s only the beginning, though. The Cubs are said to be ‘in the thick’ of trade negotiations, for Edward Cabrera and others.

“We’re reaching out to probably all 29 teams,” Carter Hawkins said Tuesday.

Tomorrow never knows.

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