The smell of stale salsa becomes familiar by the end of the winter meetings, one executive here said Monday. Over the four days of baseball’s annual summit, club officials gather in each suite, order room service, pick at appetizers while they mull over conversations with other teams and agents.
If evaluators with the Orioles, Rays and Jays have time between nachos over the next 48 hours, they should go around the room and take turns offering opinions on this question: Do they believe they can contend against the newly Giancarlo'd Yankees or the defending division-champion Red Sox?
And if the consensus in those rooms is that their respective teams don’t have a legit shot at the playoffs, then they should sell -- every veteran player of any value.