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Tuesday Bird Droppings: Where the winter meetings are lacking buzz

Good morning, Camden Chatters.

Major League Baseball’s winter meetings kicked off yesterday. In a typical year, this week would be a welcome reprieve from the long, cold offseason, as GMs, managers, agents, players, media, and other assorted baseball folk would all gather in one place for a wild few days of wheeling and dealing — or at least rumors about wheeling and dealing. We’d be refreshing Twitter every five minutes for the latest juicy tidbits about which teams were seen meeting with which agents, or which big-name players were being bandied about in trade rumors, or which long-forgotten baseball hanger-on was spotted lurking in the lobby.