With the World Series firmly in the rearview mirror, the offseason can start in earnest. Heck, Anaheim and Atlanta didn’t even wait 24 hours after Walker Buehler’s last pitch to swap players, with Jorge Soler heading out to California and Griffin Canning likely to become the next great reclamation project for Alex Anthopoulos. We’re also now within the exclusive five-day window when teams can negotiate with their own free agents without fear of interference from other organizations. In other words, most teams aren’t waiting around to process the emotions of the Fall Classic. They’ve already moved on.
For the Astros, this offseason will likely be their most consequential winter in a long time.