The annual baseball winter meetings start next week. The rumor mill will jump into hyperdrive as front offices of each team converge into one meeting locale for a week. There will be signings, trades, announcements, and a multitude of rumors and speculation.
The Tampa Bay Rays are often among the most talked about at the meetings as they are usually dangling a coveted starting pitcher. Sometimes the trigger is pulled at the meetings; sometimes however the gun is loaded and the thing jams and nobody is getting fitted for a new uniform.
The team’s winter meeting history has had its peaks and valleys; sometimes glorious and sometimes, not so much (looking at you Hit Show!