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If you know the feeling when you walk into a restaurant and the server tells you the place is out of your favorite dish, you can empathize with baseball executives heading into this offseason.

Free agency typically provides general managers with a wide-ranging selection of players who can improve their chances heading into the upcoming season. This offseason, though, it’s as if baseball is out of everything on the menu.

The San Francisco Giants need to bolster their bullpen.

The Giants know it. Every other team knows it. Your second cousin who's wrapped up in the election and doesn't really follow baseball knows it.

Remember when Sonny Gray seemed to have one foot in an Oakland A's uniform and one foot on the trading block? Those were interesting times.

Now they may be ready for a comeback.

Major League Baseball handed out the 2016 Silver Slugger Awards to the best offensive player at each position on Thursday. The winners included Mike Trout in the American League and Corey Seager in the National League. 

Here is the full list of Silver Slugger winners from MLB.com, as voted on by MLB coaches and managers:

If the Detroit Tigers start to tear down their aging roster and build for the future, second baseman Ian Kinsler will be an attractive piece for an opposing team.

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Dodgers Look at Kinsler

Thursday, Nov. 10

Detroit Tigers outfielder J.D. Martinez has become the subject of trade rumors this offseason.

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New York Yankees catcher and designated hitter Brian McCann has continued to be the subject of trade rumors this offseason.

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Coming off the best season of his career in 2016, Minnesota Twins second baseman Brian Dozier is going to draw plenty of trade interest this offseason if the team wants to move him.  

According to MLB Network's Jon Morosi, multiple teams showed interest in Dozier during the general manager meetings. 

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Mark Melancon, one of several prized relief pitchers on this year's free-agent market, is already generating interest as the offseason wheeling and dealing begins to heat up. 

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Closer Kenley Jansen will be one of the top free agents on the market and is one of the elite closers available to teams that are looking to bolster the back end of the bullpen.

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