2023 MLB Winter Meetings preview: Shohei Ohtani's free agency, blockbuster Juan Soto trade and more questions

Major League Baseball's Winter Meetings are upon us. Even as the march of technology makes such an in-person, face-to-face hootenanny seem quaint and even unnecessary, it's still the signature event of the sport's offseason calendar. Speaking of signatures, the expectation is that a number of premium free agents will put pen to paper during the festivities that get underway on Sunday in Nashville, or at least lay the foundation for doing so. And that's to say nothing of the blockbuster trades that might go down.

Such an event demands that we gin up enthusiasm and speculation, and we're here to satisfy those solemn duties by posing the most pressing questions that may or may not be fully or even partially answered before execs, agents, and even some players depart Nashville on Dec. 7. Let's do that now.