I wrote a bunch of stuff this week to cover all the major transactions before and during the winter meetings, including:<\/p>\n
• The Cardinals signing Dexter Fowler<\/a> I also held a Klawchat<\/a> on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n Over at Paste<\/em>, I reviewed Terraforming Mars<\/a>, one of the best new boardgames of 2016, and one that will place high on my ranking of the top ten games of the year when that’s published in the next few days.<\/p>\n You can preorder my upcoming book, Smart Baseball<\/em><\/a>, on amazon. Also, please sign up for my more-or-less weekly email newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n And now, the links…<\/p>\n I wrote a bunch of stuff this week to cover all the major transactions before and during the winter meetings, including: • The Cardinals signing Dexter Fowler • The Yankees signing Aroldis Chapman • The Nationals’ trade for Adam Eaton • The Cubs\/Royals trade with Wade Davis and Jorge Soler • The Rockies signing Ian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[894,899,512,828,800,609,849,190,776,870,904],"class_list":["post-5303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2016-movies","tag-africa","tag-ann-patchett","tag-climate-change","tag-evolution","tag-hip-hop","tag-languages","tag-links","tag-physics","tag-stick-to-baseball","tag-tin-foil-hats","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5305,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303\/revisions\/5305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n• The Yankees signing Aroldis Chapman<\/a>
\n• The Nationals’ trade for Adam Eaton<\/a>
\n• The Cubs\/Royals trade with Wade Davis and Jorge Soler<\/a>
\n• The Rockies signing Ian Desmond<\/a>
\n• The Rays signing Wilson Ramos<\/a>
\n• The Red Sox trading for Chris Sale<\/a>
\n• The Red Sox trading for Tyler Thornburg<\/a>
\n• The Giants signing Mark Melancon<\/a>
\n• The Yankees signing Matt Holliday<\/a>
\n• The Astros signing Carlos Beltran<\/a><\/p>\n\n