Baseball’s winter meetings got underway on Sunday with the announcement of Baseball’s Classic Era Hall of Fame ballot, and then the party really got started last night when Juan Soto signed with the New York Mets for a mind-boggling $765 million. Soto’s signing on the eve of the official start of the meetings felt like it could be a sign that a lot of major moves could happen this week while the losers in those sweepstakes moved on to their plan Bs.
On day one, that wasn’t really what happened. There are some rumors swirling, but the transactions today were of the smaller variety (at least, as of 6:45 p.