The winter meetings are set to kick off on Monday in Nashville, Tennessee, and with the market set for pitching and no shortage of trade rumors swirling around, the MLB world could be in four a busy four days.
Heck, it's already been a busy offseason, and the calendar just turned over to December.
Two of the marquee free agents on the pitching side of things have already signed, as Jordan Zimmermann agreed to a five-year, $110 million deal with the Detroit Tigers and David Price inked a record seven-year, $217 million deal with the Boston Red Sox.
The Zimmermann signing will likely set the market for secondary starters, while the Price signing means the division rival Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants could find themselves in a bidding war for Zack Greinke.
Greinke is expected to make a decision by the end of the week, and once he does that could trigger a domino effect on the rest of the pitching market that begins just as the meetings kick off.
Meanwhile, the position player market has been slower to develop.
The biggest names to sign so far have been lower-level players like Franklin Gutierrez, Chris Young, Alex Avila, Chris Iannetta and Nori Aoki, and as a result there's not shortage of impact talent still looking for a new home.
So what might go down during this year's annual meetings?
What follows are seven impact deals that could be pulled off during the 2015 winter meetings, with the likelihood of those deals getting done next week based on a combination of rumors and speculation.
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