MLB Roundup 12/8: White Sox trade for Lance Lynn

Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty ImagesThe “Winter Meetings” began on Monday, and I put that in quotes because it’s a virtual event this year insofar as anything exists at all. And in terms of what we think of when we think of the Winter Meetings — i.e. a flurry of player movement — it doesn’t really seem to be set up for anything different this year. A virtual Winter Meetings is just, like, a normal offseason day from that perspective. Despite that, there were a couple of big trades on Monday.

We’ll start with the second one, which broke just before midnight Eastern. Lance Lynn has been seen as one of the top trade targets among starting pitchers this winter, and the Rangers found the deal…