SAN DIEGO – What comes after the Scott Boras Winter Meetings Sign-a-palooza? How about Trade-a-palooza?



It may not quite be true that every big-name free agent signed at (or before) these winter meetings. But 19 of Jim Bowden’s top 35 free agents are already off the board with nearly two weeks left before Christmas. Only Madison Bumgarner, Marcell Ozuna, Hyun-Jin Ryu, Josh Donaldson, Nicholas Castellanos and Dallas Keuchel remain from Bowden’s top 15. And it’s expected that at least half of that group could sign in the next week.



So you know what that means. It means the rest of this offseason won’t be about dollar signs. It will be about teams looking to remake their rosters the retro way — with a series of good old-fashioned trades, several of them likely to involve some of the biggest names and most high-profile teams in the industry.



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