Major League Baseball's offseason is in full swing. The Winter Meetings are fast approaching, All-Stars are being traded, and the Pittsburgh Pirates are swinging deals. While most of the biggest dominoes are yet to fall, with a winter full of contract negotiations ahead, several markets have started to move prior to the Winter Meetings, which is not always the case. Such action bodes well for offseason spending during a year when many expected the potential looming lockout to significantly hamper teams' willingness to hand out free agent contracts.
Deals like the ones Dylan Cease (7-year, $210 million with the Toronto Blue Jays) and Devin Williams (3-year, $51 million with the New York Mets) earned and trades of pitchers like Sonny Gray and Johan Oviedo have already moved the starting and relief pitcher markets, but the position player market has been much quieter, with Josh Naylor and the Seattle Mariners' reunion being the most notable free agent signing.