FOR FOUR DAYS in early November, baseball executives paraded in and out of Suite 6048 at the Omni La Costa Resort and Spa. They had gathered in Carlsbad, California, for the annual GM meetings, and nearly every organization sent at least one representative to the villa to meet with agent Scott Boras and his team of lieutenants. Executives entered Boras' room hoping to gauge the temperature of a most unusual free agent period. They left wondering how much of what he said was true. Because if it was, baseball was about to have a November unlike any they'd ever seen.
How the Rangers, Mets, Blue Jays and Mariners combined for the wildest day in MLB free-agency history
