SAN DIEGO -- Monday morning at baseball's winter meetings ... such a sleepy time with the cool breeze blowing in off the bay and rustling the palm trees ever so slightly.
Not so much. As colleague David Schoenfield put it: The old-school winter meetings are back!
On the morning of the first full day in San Diego, we've already had two industry-rattling signings, with Trea Turner landing a massive $300 million commitment from the Philadelphia Phillies just after Justin Verlander matched the record average annual value of a contract by reaching an agreement with the New York Mets.