Good morning, Camden Chatters.
MLB’s winter meetings are over. Ideas were discussed, trades were talked, fun was had, and now the 30 teams have gone their separate ways and left San Diego. Uh, except the Padres, I suppose.
This year’s meetings were highlighted by the three best free agents on the market — Stephen Strasburg, Gerrit Cole, and Anthony Rendon — all agreeing to lavish new contracts with the Nationals, Yankees, and Angels, respectively. Strasburg and Rendon inked identical seven-year, $245 million deals, while Cole cashed in with an incredible nine-year, $324 million pact, the largest in MLB history for a pitcher (topping the record set by Strasburg a day earlier).