With an offseason of trades, signings and re-signings already underway, it behooves us to take a step back and lay out where each MLB team stands -- and what its current big-picture objective is -- as we head toward the winter meetings in Nashville, Tennessee, set for early December. Here is the current landscape, division by division and team by team:
AL East
The Orioles are facing a wide spread of players potentially leaving via free agency, including their best power hitter, Chris Davis, their best left-handed starter, Wei-Yin Chen, and their best reliever, Darren O'Day.