Anyone else pick up on the very quick pushback against Jed Hoyer’s pushback on those Willson Contreras rumors? Like, lots of reporting that very quickly sought to make sure people weren’t thinking Contreras DEFINITELY wasn’t EVER getting traded? Usually, that means it’s a message someone wants to get out, and it was a signal to me that I should probably say something here.
I started the discussion here, and then Michael tracked a lot of it here in the Stove. Then there was even more of it in Patrick Mooney’s latest last night (from which we discussed the Jason Castro rumor), and it feels like the right take (which is also what I said after his comments): what Hoyer was pushing back against is the idea that the Cubs are out there working on a specific Contreras deal or deals, and something is about to happen.