SAN DIEGO -- The 2019 winter meetings have come and gone. For the first time in a couple of years, the echo of baseball's annual gathering is not one of silence. This year stuff happened, and not just in terms of transactions.
We had some those of course, with the top three free agents in this year's marketplace all coming off the board. However, on the non-transaction front, there were signs of a gathering storm as baseball enters a new decade. Not that it was all bad news, but there might be some bumpy months and years ahead as the rate of change in the industry begins to accelerate. People who love the planet's best game fret over what it might look like for future generations. Those are gaudy words, to be sure, but they are not exaggerations -- such chatter was in the air.
