Change. It's the name of the game during baseball's hot-stove season, now taking place three months later than usual due to the lockout! To illustrate, let's look at two stints that lasted merely a day:
Isiah Kiner-Falefa's tenure with the Minnesota Twins.
Gio Urshela's time as the New York Yankees' starting shortstop, a proclamation made by manager Aaron Boone on Sunday morning.
By Sunday night, the Yankees altered both by supplanting the latter with the former, as Kiner-Falefa joined Josh Donaldson and the remaining two years (plus a mutual 2024 option) and $51.5 million of his contract, plus defensively oriented catcher Ben Rortvedt in coming to the Yankees in a trade in exchange for Urshela and catcher Gary Sanchez. And, like many of you, all I can say in response is, "Well, surely there's more to all this?"