Breaking Down the Impact of the Week's Biggest MLB Moves

This has been a week worthy of the Hot Stove Hall of Fame.

Though the winter meetings don't kick off until Monday, there were enough free-agent signings and trades made over the last few days for several winter meetings. Notably, the two best free agents are off the board, and some big pieces got moved via the trade market.

Since inspecting the impact of every deal that went down this week would take up a whole 'nother week, what I'm going to do instead is take a look at the 13 "biggest" deals that went down, analyzing their impact on both individual clubs and the offseason market as a whole.

Let's take it away...

Note: Stats courtesy of Baseball-Reference.com unless otherwise noted/linked.

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