After losing Zack Greinke via free agency, the Los Angeles Dodgers made a move to bolster their pitching staff, as they reportedly agreed to a deal with Japanese starting pitcher Kenta Maeda. 

Jon Heyman of CBS Sports first reported the signing, and ESPN.com's Jim Bowden and Mark Saxon confirmed the deal Saturday. 

Yoenis Cespedes, Chris Davis, Alex Gordon and Justin Upton have historically bad luck.

As Joel Sherman of the New York Post sees it, the market for free-agent game-changers has never developed at a slower pace.

"Never has there been this many talented free agents unsigned this late into the offseason."

As the calendar flips to 2016 and the spring training clock begins ticking in earnest, it's time to update the hottest questions of the 2015-16 MLB offseason.

Plenty has transpired this winter. Big-ticket free agents have fallen off the board, seismic swaps have been consummated and the baseball landscape has measurably shifted.

For the Miami Marlins, the club's New Year's resolution is incredibly simple: Just don't trade Jose Fernandez.

While the Fish don't have to do anything at all, action will be required for the vast majority of major league squads if they're going to fulfill their respective resolutions.

The New York Yankees have built a wicked nasty pen, but the rotation still needs an ace. The San Francisco Giants still have some unchecked bullet points on their offseason shopping list, and the Los Angeles Dodgers have an enigma to solve.

Two months have passed since the Kansas City Royals celebrated their first World Series championship in 30 years, yet we sit here on New Year's Eve with more questions than answers about which team—or teams—are in the best position to take the crown from the defending champs.

The new year begins Friday, but we are still a couple months away from the start of the 2016 MLB season.

With a number of impact players still sitting in free agency, there will be plenty more action between now and that magical day when pitchers and catchers report to spring training.

For now, though, it's time for an updated look at where all 30 teams stand.

The teams are interested and lining up. 

They can certainly smell a potential deal that benefits them when the scent wafts through the offseason air. And the aroma is strong with this one.

The Hall of Fame ballot arrived in the mail last month, filled with tough choices. Too many steroid guys, too many close calls.

And one sure-fire, no-doubt Hall of Famer.

If the Hall allowed us just one vote a year, this would have been the easiest ballot ever.

Put a check next to Ken Griffey Jr. Sign the ballot and mail it in.

And I would have been fine with that.

One part of the 2015 MLB season that will persist even after we all change our calendars is the offseason. That makes now as good a time as ever to take stock of what's going on, and we're going to do that by honoring the Internet gods with a good, old-fashioned list of offseason winners and losers.

We'll look at only the five biggest winners and losers of the winter to date. And though we can't say they're ranked in any particular order, we can say they range from teams that are and aren't doing well to specific players who have and haven't made a killing in free agency.

Scott Kazmir is nice. Quite fine, even.

But Scott Kazmir is not enough to fix what is becoming a more uninspiring offseason by the day for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

The Dodgers, three-time defending National League West champions, agreed to a three-year, $48 million contract with the left-handed Kazmir, according to Fox Sports' Jon Morosi: