The heavy lifting of the MLB offseason is done, with just a few marquee names still available on the free-agent market.
While the trading block can always shake things up, most of the groundwork for the 2014 season has been laid. It’s certainly been a busy one, with Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports reporting the league is on pace to spend more than $2 billion this winter.
Big-time players have also swapped jerseys since the World Series ended, creating a new, exciting landscape for baseball. Here’s a look at the contenders and pretenders of baseball’s most active offseason teams so far heading into 2014.