Your Five-Minute Guide to Everything You Missed This Winter As Opening Day Begins

Need a recap on an often slow, but unpredictable offseason as Opening Day begins? We've got you!

Plodding—that was the pace of the just-concluded offseason, with general managers working at a tempo reminiscent of Steve Trachsel’s. Waiting yielded to more waiting, which yielded to more waiting still, and eventually to two big contracts that set records but failed to knock the baseball world off its axis. But there was still movement! What follows is a non-exhaustive list of this winter’s biggest transactions to get fans up to speed before Opening Day. Don’t worry if you slept through the offseason; the Indians did too! Now, though, it’s time to wake up.

Padres Sign Manny Machado

The Marlins’…