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The hottest commodity at MLB’s Winter Meetings was relief pitchers. With teams growing ever more analytically inclined, the bullpen arms getting snapped up had some of the best advanced metrics of anyone available on the open market. Statcast takes a look.

The Red Sox re-signed first baseman Mitch Moreland to a two-year deal worth a reported $13 million, seemingly taking them out of play for Eric Hosmer in the process. But what about J.D. Martinez?

Rookie Davis didn’t know Chad Gibson personally, but he learned a lot about him through Twitter: Chad was a lifelong Reds fan, a devoted husband to Lacy, a proud father to Chace, and, man oh man, did he love baseball.

There has always been a deadline on the Manny Machado sweepstakes. The Orioles know that they they won’t — they can’t — go late into the offseason not knowing what direction the organization is headed with its superstar.

Though the Red Sox had been exploring new options at first base since the Hot Stove season started, they will bring back Mitch Moreland on a two-year contract, the team announced on Monday.

Twins general manager Thad Levine, who was assistant GM in Texas when Yu Darvish signed with the Rangers in 2012, has said the Japanese right-hander is a priority for Minnesota this offseason, and that hasn’t changed.

The Hot Stove is open for business, and news, trade buzz and rumors are in full swing. Here’s the latest from around the big leagues.

Don’t think for a second that any of the 30 clubs are on seasonal hiatus. Not when so many great players are available on the open market, and not when so many blockbuster trades might be brewing.

Every year, it seems, a team will do what the Angels are doing now, making deals and free-agent signings, reimagining themselves as a whole new kind of team.