Thanks to the endless stream of MLB whispers, news and speculation, it is a fine time to be a fan of the game.

From watching the waiver wire to see who’s cleared and is eligible to be traded to keeping up with the latest rookie call-ups and analyzing the postseason picture, there is always something to grab your attention. 

So what new bits of gossip that made their way around MLB over the last seven days are there for us to dissect?

As a standard note, this won’t be an all-inclusive list. That would take a novel’s worth of reading to digest. Rather, we’ll examine some of the juicier bits.

With that noted, let’s take a look at what’s going on around MLB.

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