Spring training may still be two months away, but the cold winter months have had little success subduing MLB’s offseason hot stove.
The fall of 2010 has been an eventful one in the baseball world, even with the free agent class being as thin as it is.
As always, there are some teams that have added tremendously to their chances of World Series title contention in 2011, and plenty more that have been set back further, whether by their own missteps or by the unexpected choices of those they pursued (cough…Cliff Lee…cough).
With the likes of Adrian Beltre and Vladimir Guerrero still on the market, the hot stove might very well stay that way right up until Opening Day at the end of March 2011.
With that in mind, here’s a mid-December look at the offseason’s biggest winners and losers thus far.