Baseball has seen a little bit of everything this offseason. Following the Texas Rangers’ World Series victory, we had a stretch of relative quiet, with the occasional transaction sprinkled in every few weeks.
That was in part because we were waiting for arguably the most anticipated signing in the history of the game — until Shohei Ohtani inked a 10-year, $700 million deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers in December, shattering all kinds of records.
The two-way star got the bulk of the attention this winter (rightfully so), but there were several other moves that moved the needle and didn’t involve the two-time MVP.