Rise and shine A’s fans! Welcome to Thursday everyone!
The Winter Meetings are officially over, and there was a ton of movements all across baseball. The Chicago White Sox traded ace starting pitcher Garrett Crochet to the Boston Red Sox for a huge haul of prospects, superstar outfielder Juan Soto finalized the largest contract in sports history with the New York Mets, and the rival Yankees quickly pivoted to sign lefty ace Max Fried to the largest contract ever given to a left-handed pitcher. Lots of other small moves happened as well but perhaps more importantly the groundwork for future moves was likely set with preliminary and exploratory talks happening on both the free agent market as well as the trade front.