The giant swap meet that is the MLB Winter Meetings start on Monday in Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay Resort and the Cubs will be looking to kick start their offseason that has been pretty sleepy up to this point.
Fans tend to look at the Winter Meetings as something akin to Black Friday for baseball. It’s the time when their favorite team needs to get a head start on their Opening Day roster for the next year. This feeling is reinforced by things like the wall-to-wall coverage of the Winter Meetings on the MLB Network and honestly, articles like this one.