There was a time — not long ago — that baseball’s Winter Meetings were the place for a good portion of the offseason action. It used to be three non-stop days of trades, free agent signings and anything else you could imagine.
It was just four short years ago that Andrew Friedman and Co., in its first year at the helm of the Dodgers, nearly broke baseball. Jimmy Rollins was coming to town. Dee Gordon was shipped out for Austin Barnes, Andrew Heaney, Chris Hatcher and Enrique Hernandez.