2022 MLB Winter Meetings: Dates, storylines and everything else to know about

For the first time in three years, baseball’s Winter Meetings — typically the busiest week of the offseason — will be an in-person event this offseason. Last offseason’s Winter Meetings were canceled because of the owners’ lockout, and the festivities were held virtually the offseason before that because of the pandemic. At long last, the real Winter Meetings are back.

The last in-person Winter Meetings (2019) saw Gerrit Cole, Anthony Rendon, and Stephen Strasburg sign monster contracts. Zack Wheeler signed as well, plus there were a few trades. All signs point to several deals being brokered this year. Here are the details for this year’s Winter Meetings: 

• Where: Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, California
• When: Sunday, Dec. 4 to Wednesday, Dec. 7

We here at CBSSports.com and on CBS Sports HQ will of course provide around-the-clock Winter Meetings updates and analysis. We’ll have all the latest rumors and break down any and all trades and free agent signings. The Winter Meetings make for a hectic week but also a very fun one. The offseason doesn’t get any better.

Here is everything you need to know about this year’s Winter Meetings.

Rumors! Trades! Signings!

This is why we care about the Winter Meetings, right? We want action. Trades and free agent signings, plus plenty of rumors in-between. The offseason has been fairly slow to date and that is expected to change during the Winter Meetings. It should be an eventful few days in the hot stove league.

Aaron Judge will be the No. 1 story in San Diego and the Yankees have reportedly put an offer “in the neighborhood” of eight years and $300 million on the table. It feels like the rest of the free agent market is waiting on Judge. Think about it. If you’re, say, Carlos Correa or Trea Turner, why wouldn’t you wait to see whether the teams that miss out on Judge turn around and throw all that money at you? And once one top shortstop comes off the board, the rest will fall like dominos.

The starting pitching market is beginning to move with Jacob deGrom’s stunning five-year contract with the Rangers.