Credit: Wendell Cruz-Imagn Images / David Frerker-Imagn ImagesIt wouldn’t be trade deadline season without somebody, somewhere, having to walk back a Bob Nightengale report. By Monday morning, The Athletic’s Brendan Kuty and Dennis Lin had a very different account of what that offer actually was, and who was actually saying so. Anyone who follows baseball Twitter closely enough has seen this movie before, since Nightengale’s reporting has needed correcting more than once. There’s an entire treasure trove in Awful Announcing’s archives of Nightengale’s reporting gaffes to choose from, starting with December 2024. And Bob Nightengale is still Bob Nightengale.