Major League Baseball’s annual winter meetings have come and gone with very little movement from the top players or teams, though that doesn’t mean the event was a waste of time.
In fact, scouring the rumors and speculation that came from Orlando, you get the sense that several huge dominoes are getting ready to fall, and that will open up the field for teams to know what they are working against.
Since we can’t dissect any major moves, we wanted to talk about deals that should happen. There were so many tidbits floating around throughout the week that we can put some pieces together.
To be clear, the signings and/or trades that we are suggesting are not necessarily going to happen, but based off some of the talk going on, we believe they make too much sense for both the player and team not to go down.
With that, here are the five deals we think should happen coming out of the winter meetings.
Note: All stats courtesy of Fangraphs and Baseball-Reference.com unless otherwise noted.