The dam broke at Major League Baseball's winter meetings on Tuesday morning with news of free agents Kyle Schwarber and Edwin Diaz agreeing to new contracts in quick succession.

Schwarber is back with the Phillies on a five-year deal, while Díaz is leaving the NL East to join the Dodgers

After spending four days at the Major League Baseball winter meetings, Twins front-office staffers returned home with one Rule 5 draft-related trade to show for it. The bigger question for the Twins is: What comes next?

The Baseball Winter Meetings came and went this week at the Hilton Bonnet Creek Resort with three major free-agent signings (Schwarber, Pete Alonso and Edwin Diaz), no major trades, and one big surprise (the Pittsburgh Pirates and Cincinnati Reds bidding for Schwarber).

When told on Wednesday that one baseball executive described MLB trade talks moving at a “glacial” pace, Cardinals president of baseball operations Chaim Bloom furled his face and openly balked. “That’s not how it has felt to me,

Takeaways from the final day of the winter meetings included the Chicago White Sox selecting pitchers Jedixson Paez and Alexander Alberto in the Rule 5 draft.

The Major League Baseball winter meetings are unpredictable. Teams can do a whole lot of nothing for a week or become the epicenter of the industry if they make the right trade or sign the free agent every team wants.

Since 2012, Major League Baseball has teamed with all 30 clubs to host a charity auction during the Winter Meetings that will benefit a specific cause that is especially meaningful to the game. The au