Good Morning, Birdland!
Team executives, agents, and players will be descending on Dallas this weekend ahead of the Winter Meetings, which begin on Monday. The expectation is that Juan Soto, the jewel of the free agent market, will pick his destination any day now. Once that happens, the rest of the high-end talents should start to sign, and the trade market could be unleashed as well.
This has become a rather common—and annoying—offseason cadence. The big money rarely gets spent until after the Winter Meetings, and then there is a flurry before the end of the year.