What I'm Hearing: The hot stove was on fire during the Winter Meetings in San Diego, and as Bob Nightengale details, Scott Boras was the center of attention. USA TODAY
SAN DIEGO — Certainly, the New York Yankees could have punched their ticket to a World Series by leaving baseball’s winter meetings with $324 million ace Gerrit Cole in tow.
Perhaps the more than billion dollars of transactions brokered here, or the trades that ultimately hatch from talks that began in a hotel suite of the Manchester Grand Hyatt will make the difference in winning a pennant or languishing in the second division.