Next week, the baseball world will descend on Nashville, Tennessee, for the annual winter meetings. If you've never been, here's a CliffsNotes explainer:
The baseball operations departments for all 30 teams will hole up in their own suites, feverishly debating the pros and cons of various restaurants proposed for dinner (the only time they ever leave said suites).
At some point over the course of the four-day event, Scott Boras will emerge Randy Orton-style, attracting hordes of sportswriters to hear him bemoan the state of Major League Baseball (he will be 100 percent right about teams claiming a bigger share of the industry's revenue than we've seen in many years).