Every team enters MLB's annual winter meetings with a wish list. No one has addressed every need and shored up every weakness, be it a buyer or seller.
But as players, agents, general managers and the media descend on Nashville's Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center beginning Sunday, some clubs will be hungrier than others. Some, in fact, will be downright famished.
While GMs and front-office decision-makers know enough to formulate plans and contingencies—and contingencies on top of those—a strong sense of urgency can begin to set in as free agents and trade targets fall off the board.
Every offseason has winners. Which means, inevitably, there will be losers as well.
It's too early to slap anyone with the "loser" label just yet. But as the meetings kick off and the deals start flying, here are six squads that face intense pressure to plug holes, make something happen and tick at least a few items off their winter wish lists.
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