Reports: MLB proposes changes to off-season calendar

The off-season in MLB could look drastically different in the coming years. MLB proposed changes to the off-season calendar on Thursday, which could speed up free agency and trade negotiations through the winter months, ESPN’s Jeff Passan reported. According to Passan, free agency could be shortened to a two- to three-week period. A dead period would follow the end of the World Series and would last until the Winter Meetings in early December — players and teams would be allowed to negotiate, but no deals could be signed. Free agency would then open up at the start of the Winter…