BOCA RATON, Fla. — The general manager meetings are usually a somewhat sleepy cousin to baseball’s winter meetings, but that could change this year.
As teams’ top baseball executives arrived Monday for the start of the meetings, which will take place Tuesday and Wednesday, there appeared to be more activity than usual — more conversations with agents and with other teams.
“It hasn’t typically been busy G.M. meetings over all in years gone by,” Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman said. “But it feels like the dialogue’s been a lot more active throughout October than in any other year prior, so who knows?