Washington Nationals trade LHP Foster Griffin to the Cleveland Guardians for LHP Will Dion, LHP Josh Hartle, RHP Kendeglys Virguez, and OF Nick Mitchell.

I don’t mind being wrong, as a baseball analyst. I mean, I try to avoid it—I figure that at least trying to be right is part of what you all indirectly pay me for—but I accept a certain amount of failure. If playoff teams can fail nearly half the time (perhaps fully half the time, in this year’s AL West), I figure I’m allowed to miss as well. So I don’t mind being wrong. I do mind being wrong when I make a good joke. This was my transaction analysis regarding the Foster Griffin signing last winter: