You are allowed to yell at me for what you are about to read here. And many of you probably will.

But the goal of this annual column is not to make friends. The goal is to make trades.

Big ones.

Star-for-prospect swaps? Sure, those are cool.

Big leaguer for big leaguer barters, à la Marcus Semien for Brandon Nimmo ? Love ‘em.

But in the spirit of the holiday, we are going to overstuff ourselves here.

What follows are big, bold -- and, to be abundantly clear, UNLIKELY -- trades not only involving names that have been in the rumor mill but, in every instance, involving three teams!

So yell at me, if you must. I can take it. When you concoct fake three-team trades, you run the risk of upsetting three fan bases at once.

That’s a risk I’m willing to take in the name of conversational

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