MLB rumors continue to dominate the headlines following this year’s MLB Winter Meetings in Orlando , where several player agents floated one of the more surprising offseason ideas in recent memory. The proposal—an annual winter baseball trade deadline on December 10—sparked immediate reactions across the league and drew a memorable response from one longtime insider.

In an article written by The Athletic’s Jim Bowden, he described how some agents hoped to establish a mid-December cutoff that would halt trades until spring training. The concept, intended to push clubs toward bigger spending in MLB free agency , struck Bowden as amusing for its transparency.

“I chuckled at the idea because of course they would like that.”

Bowden explained that a December 10 deadline would essentiall

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