Today kicks off the annual General Managers meeting — not to be confused with the Winter Meeting that takes place in December. It’s usually more of a nuts and bolts meeting, but when you get all those GMs together in one place, sometimes things happen. They did so just last year when the Rays acquired Mike Zunino and Guillermo Heredia in the Mallex Smith trade. Marc Topkin writes about the meeting here.
In other Rays news, we will find out today that Brandon Lowe did not win the Rookie of the Year, as there are no universes where Yordan Alvarez doesn’t win the AL ROY.