SAN DIEGO — MLB’s annual meat market rolls into the Hyatt Manchester near the water separating Coronado and the downtown of Southern California’s premier city on Sunday night.
In the days before text messages became the favorite way for team officials to communicate from their hotel suites, the lobbies and bars were filled with executives attempting to cull information about what other teams were looking for at the Winter Meetings. Like the late nights when general managers and scouts would close the hotel bar, then have to cancel the trades they made while over-served the next morning, those days are gone.