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Winter meetings seldom fail on delivering a baseball circus

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Through the years, baseball general managers rarely fail to stage a show full of big-money signings and big-name trades.

ORLANDO, Fla. — It has been a few years since I attended the winter meetings, and a few decades since I covered my first one in Miami in 1991. This will be No. 15 overall, and the first under the auspices of Jerry Dipoto and his itchy trigger finger, plus the companionship of Ryan Divish, so it should be fun.

It’s one of the most grueling assignments in baseball writing, but also the one with the biggest potential — away from the field — to provide an indelible memory or aha moment.