Bronx, NY

Nashville, TN

The baseball world will descend on Nashville next week for the Winter Meetings and the MLB Pipeline Podcast gets you ready. Jim Callis, Jonathan Mayo and Jason Ratliff kick off this Winter Meetings-focused episode by talking about the second annual Draft Lottery and how it will impact the 2024 Draft order.

Podcast: Prepping for the Winter Meetings, Draft Lottery

Kansas City, MO

The Rule 5 Draft is coming next week at the Winter Meetings, but I have Rule 4 Draft fever. Hence the leadoff question in the latest edition of the Pipeline Inbox . . . With the No. 1 pick in the 2024 Draft, the Royals select . . . ? -- Marty J., St. Joseph, Mo.

Pipeline Inbox: Who will be the No. 1 pick in '24?

KANSAS CITY -- The Royals added another hitting voice to the dugout by hiring Joe Dillon as their assistant hitting coach on Thursday, the team announced. Dillon will join hitting coach Alec Zumwalt and fellow assistant hitting coach Keoni DeRenne in guiding the Royals’ Major League hitters. Manager Matt Quatraro said Thursday that all his coaches from last season would return in 2024, as expected, and he doesn’t expect another addition to the staff.

Joe Dillon joins Royals as assistant hitting coach

Kansas State

Garrett Hampson and Royals GM J.J. Picollo talk about Hampson signing a one-year deal with Kansas City and what he brings to the club.

Hampson, Picollo on one-year deal

Dallas, TX

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Chicago, IL

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Suspects in plot arrested in Chicago, Tampa in November 1963. Sixty years ago, Abraham Bolden worked as a Secret Service agent, becoming the first African American in that agency to guard a president. John F. Kennedy onceintroduced him as "the Jackie Robinson of the Secret Service."

Records: Kennedy targeted in Chicago, Florida, right before Dallas

Texas State

KANSAS CITY -- This time next week, the Winter Meetings will be in full swing. Next Monday through Wednesday, front office and league executives, agents, media and others in the industry will convene in Nashville, Tenn., for baseball’s annual gathering. The event is often a tipping point for transactions...

How this year's Draft lottery could shake out for KC

Boston, MA

Reliever Liam Hendriks has been selected as the 2023 recipient of the Tony Conigliaro Award, the Boston Red Sox announced Wednesday. The Red Sox have named a Tony Conigliaro Award winner every year since 1990 in recognition of a “Major Leaguer who has overcome adversity through the attributes of spirit, determination, and courage that were trademarks of Tony C.” Conigliaro’s career was tragically cut short when he was hit in the head by a pitch during the 1967 season. He passed away at the age of 45 in 1990.

Hendriks wins 2023 Tony Conigliaro Award

Arizona State

PHOENIX -- There have already been some offseason transactions made across Major League Baseball, including the D-backs acquiring third baseman Eugenio Suárez from the Mariners last week, but the Hot Stove season really kicks into gear next week when teams get together for the annual Winter Meetings. The Meetings...

How might Hazen approach the Winter Meetings?

Baltimore, MD

BALTIMORE -- The Orioles have filled a vacancy on their big league coaching staff. According to a source, Baltimore is hiring Atlanta bullpen coach Drew French to serve as the team’s pitching coach. The club has not yet announced the move. French, 39, has been in his role with...

O's to hire Drew French as pitching coach (source)

Miami, FL

MIAMI -- The Marlins on Tuesday added to their front office, naming Vinesh Kanthan as their director of baseball operations. He will report to assistant general managers Brian Chattin, Dan Greenlee and Oz Ocampo. Kanthan spent the past five seasons with the Rangers (2019-23), most recently as assistant director of...

Marlins land director of baseball ops from WS champs

Cincinnati, OH

CINCINNATI -- Shoring up the bullpen with relievers able to pick up multiple innings was one of the offseason priorities for the Reds. On Wednesday, before getting to the Winter Meetings, they added one. Right-handed reliever Emilio Pagán and the Reds have agreed to terms on a two-year, $16 million...

Reds add reliever Pagán on 2-year deal (source)

San Diego, CA

You wouldn’t think that a hitter as elite as Juan Soto – someone we compared to the all-time greatest hitters ever when he was just 20 years old – would be available in a trade, as he seems to be this winter. Then again, you wouldn’t think he’d have already been traded once, either, but that didn’t stop the Nationals from dealing him to the Padres at the 2022 Trade Deadline. So sure, it’s possible. It might even be likely.

Why Soto could be traded -- and which team is best fit for him

Milwaukee, WI

MILWAUKEE -- After a one-year hiatus, the Brewers have reclaimed their hold of the Trevor Hoffman National League Reliever of the Year Award, with Devin Williams announced as the winner on Wednesday night. Williams’ win marked the second time in his career he’s won the honor, and the fifth time...

Williams wins 2nd NL Reliever of Year Award

Washington, DC

This story was excerpted from Jessica Camerato’s Nationals Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. In recent years, a big question facing the Nationals' roster was the starting third-base role. Leading up to Winter Meetings next week in Nashville, Tenn., the Nats’ most glaring hole is across the infield at first base.

First base first: Nats' top priority at Winter Meetings

CHICAGO -- Count the Cubs’ current players among those who are looking forward to seeing what the front office does throughout the remainder of the offseason. And next week’s Winter Meetings could be a catalyst for roster moves. If there is one thing Jed Hoyer has displayed in...

Cubs eye latest Winter Meetings splash

Denver, CO

Only Hall of Fame voters will ever know how many of them have held geography against Todd Helton when it came time to fill out their ballots. But if it really has been geography with enough of them, the fact that Helton played his entire career in a hitter-friendly place like Coors Field, that ought to end now. Nothing ought to keep Helton out of Cooperstown this time. It is the place where true Hall of Famers end up, and that is exactly what he always was with the Colorado Rockies.

Will Helton add Cooperstown to his address book?

CHICAGO -- For the last 10 minutes prior to the 2023 Trade Deadline, all eyes primarily focused on Dylan Cease. At least, that’s how things played out in Arlington in relation to the White Sox. I can attest to that fact, as I was one of the three White Sox writers in attendance.

With Cease in demand, how will the White Sox proceed?

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IKF has new initials in his future: CF

TAMPA, Fla. -- Isiah Kiner-Falefa stood alone in center field at George M. Steinbrenner Field on Tuesday afternoon, tracking batting-practice drives from a hitting group that...

IKF has new initials in his future: CF

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