Elephant Rumblings: Winter Meetings get underway

News and notes for the A’s and Major League Baseball as the Winter Meetings get underway

Major League Baseball’s Winter Meetings will get underway in Nashville, Tennessee Sunday. If you are unfamiliar, the four-day meetings are a staple of baseball’s offseason and will bring a gathering of Front Office executives, agents and sometimes players for face-to-face meetings that shape the offseason.

The results of the Hall of Fame Contemporary Era ballot will be announced Sunday at the start of the meetings. For A’s fans, the biggest event will come on Tuesday when the second annual Draft Lottery will be held. Oakland, Kansas City and Colorado all have an 18.3 percent chance of landing the first overall selection. The meetings will close on Wednesday with the Rule 5 Draft.

A’s Coverage

• One Winter Meetings goal for each team
• 2023 Athletics Season in Review: Devin Sweet

MLB News

• Answering 6 questions looming over Winter Meetings
• The biggest Winter Meetings trades of all time
• Five reasons the Winter Meetings will sizzle
• Reliever Joe Kelly near deal to return to Dodgers
• Blue Jays interested in Michael Brantley, Joc Pederson, Isiah Kiner-Falefa
• Orioles interested in Robert Stephenson
• Yankees claim outfielder Oscar Gonzalez off waivers from Guardians
• Padres interested in Corbin Burnes
• Marlins closing on Gabe Kepler as assistant GM
• Ranking the toughest jobs for 8 new managers
• Angels retain Ray Montgomery as bench coach
• Paul Snyder, a do-it-all great in Braves organization, dies at 88

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