Yankees Winter Meetings Preview: Starting pitching and the Jacoby Ellsbury problem  —  ORLANDO - With the Winter Meetings slated to get underway, here's what we'll be watching for:  —  1. Yankees need starting pitching  —  Super slugger Giancarlo Stanton comes with risk but also potential reward as well.

Moneyball, Bronx Style: Yankees return to vintage big business ways with Giancarlo Stanton trade  —  So the Yankees are back in the big business of being the Yankees again, bigger than ever, now that they are making this kind of big deal for Giancarlo Stanton.

Yankees' Giancarlo Stanton trade ups the ante for the Red Sox  —  A year ago, after the Boston Red Sox pulled off a blockbuster trade for Chris Sale, New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman showed his admiration by dubbing them “the Golden State Warriors of baseball.”

Post-Stanton Cardinals head south to make their best sales pitch  —  In the past decade or so the Cardinals have become enviably good at marketing their history, tradition, National League-leading 11 World Series championships, and, of course, bobbleheads to entice more than 3.4 million to Busch Stadium.

Law: How Yankees' no-brainer deal became Marlins' lost opportunity  —  The Yankees didn't need Giancarlo Stanton, but they will get him for very little, just taking on the bulk of his contract, which is something they and very few other clubs have the financial wherewithal to do.

MLB trade rumors: Mets will check in with Marlins about Starlin Castro  —  Castro isn't officially a Marlin, but the Mets have interest  —  Early Saturday, the New York Yankees and Miami Marlins reportedly reached an agreement on a Giancarlo Stanton trade.

Diamondbacks must find a way to keep pace with red-hot MLB  —  The MLB Winter Meetings are coming up and azcentral sports' Diamondbacks insider Nick Piecoro will be there.  Nick joins Jay Dieffenbach to take a look at what might go down in Orlando this year.  —  CONNECT

Angels welcome Shohei Ohtani, plot course for two-way Japanese star  —  ANAHEIM, Calif. — General manager Billy Eppler rose from his seat in rapturous joy when he got the phone call telling him Shohei Ohtani wanted to join the Los Angeles Angels.  —  When Eppler attempted to sit back down …