The Winter Meetings are always a time of great titillation and anticipation. Will there be a major move? What will it be? When the first domino falls, what will the next domino look like and what about the one after?
The reality is this: some years there is a flurry of frantic activity during the Winter Meetings while other years groundwork is laid for significant transactions soon after. Some years the A’s are among the teams making a splash and other years they are pretty quiet before Christmas.
Case in point, 72 hours prior to the Winter Meetings the A’s shocked the world by handing our their biggest ever contract to Luis Severino: $67M over 3 years.