While the baseball world waits for Juan Soto to hear from his most persistent suitors one more time, with no Odysseus and Telemachus to help him, the pace of free agent signings is starting to pick up as the Winter Meetings begin. There is also some buzz on Sunday evening that the Soto camp is close to a decision. An announcement of a Soto deal may well open the floodgates and be followed by a number of signings and trades from teams that missed out, and as just about all the biggest market teams appear to be involved in courting him, that’s a lot of weight to be thrown around by the Soto sweepstakes losers.