Outside The Confines: Winter Meetings are coming...

Photo by Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox/Getty ImagesBaseball’s winter meetings are poised to get underway next week (December 3-6 officially) in Nashville (expansion conspiracy theorists can have fun reading too much into the location), and teams will have an ideal opportunity to put their heads together, woo agents, and hopefully come away with some new signings.

We’re also doubtlessly going to get some truly remarkable Scott Boras witticisms, if that’s what you’re looking forward to (I am, I admit). Truly, the best part of looking forward to Winter Meetings is knowing that the already hot hot stove is about to get scorching, and we can’t wait to see what happens.

Let’s get onto today’s links.

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