Nick Krall speaks about the Cincinnati Reds 2027 needs

The General Managers meetings are taking place right now in Las Vegas, Nevada. Usually this is more of a quiet time of the early part of the offseason, with the winter meetings being more of a place where we start to see and hear things from front offices and players and agents. This year, though, there are not likely to be a winter meetings for MLB as it seems inevitable that when the current collective bargaining agreement ends on December 1st that the owners will lock the players out and thus stop everything in its tracks when it comes to signings, trades, communication between teams and players and even between teams about players. That puts teams in more of an aggressive mode now than usual.

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