Written by Kenny Darling at Oregon Sports News
The Winter Meetings begin in less than a week! Christmas for baseball enthusiasts begins December 7th in Nashville and waiting for Christmas morning is the worst!
A couple of months ago I wrote an article about the Winter Meetings and why they’re so significant to me. A big part of that is because it’s something to look forward to this time of year. This two week period of best-guess rumors and reports of some team, interested in some player based on some unnamed team sources.
From the beginning of Thanksgiving week up until the Winter Meetings begin, there’s usually not much baseball news to report, so we start to see all of these baseball writers kicking up dust and looking for a thread to pull.
Maybe everyone’s at home with family, electing to put off business dealings until the Turkey’s settled. Another theory is that sports agents like to wait for a couple of the bigger blocks to fall and set the tone for the free agent market. In those cases, someone has to make the leap though. Someone has to set the pace and someone always does.
Jordan Zimmermann recently signed with the Detroit Tigers for $110 million over five years. Zimmermann, who’s coming off another season of 200-inning baseball with an ERA under four, has been as steady as they come. I think the Tigers just got a bargain, but will his contract affect the market?
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