Short and simple: The season is done, the Cubs have won and while that's a great story, there's new business at hand.

It's time for the MLB off-season, that cold, blustery three-month void where the game being played takes place off the field. Theo and Friedman, Billy Boy, Dombrowski, Mo and twenty five other suits are about to play the ultimate chess game, trying to outwit one another while dozens of agents, representing the game pieces, look to manipulate the game to get their (and their clients') own personal piece.

Who will buy? Who will sell? Who will sign where? Which free agents will be left out in the cold? How will the collective bargaining agreement change the rules? All of the answers will come in the next three months as MLB's thirty franchises set themselves up for 2017 and/or for years to come, while weighing and balancing...everything.

I could put a couple more hours into this OP, but that's valuable time I could spend reading MLBTR or pondering the possibilities. Hell, if someone wants to make a better OP, have at it. I just want someone where I know I can go when my RSS feed lights up.

End ****ty OP. Let's talk ball.