Might Cubs be poised for an active winter meetings?

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - JANUARY 12: Chicago Cubs President Jed Hoyer introduces Shota Imanaga during a press conference at Lowes Hotel on January 12, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois.Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty

The Major League Baseball winter meetings next week in Orlando, Florida, are shaping up to be eventful, with plenty of action already stirring.

That’s a change from 2023 and 2024, when Shohei Ohtani’s and Juan Soto’s market-setting free agencies put some of the heavyweight teams in a holding pattern leading up to the meetings.

Still, the 2024 meetings were productive for the Cubs after they already had signed left-hander Matthew Boyd in the days leading up to them. They laid the groundwork to acquire…