Hopefully took him out early to catch a flight to Biloxi. In all seriousness, I was thinking the same thing as you with it being a blowout. Probably just precautionary.
Yeah they built in Friday as an off day for a reason so no need to try and play through crappy weather all day tomorrow. I’m just going to assume no game tomorrow.
Yelich, Frelick, Chourio, and Perkins will have the outfield covered so no need for Wiemer and Ortiz and Monasterio will have 3B covered so no need for Black yet.
The players would never in a million years agree to a deadline and it would be a waste of everyone’s time for MLB to present any sort of proposal that includes a deadline for free agency.