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We're five days out now from the beginning of Major League Baseball's winter meetings.

Those are taking place this year in Orlando, Florida.

D.K. Pittsburgh Sports will, of course, be there covering it.

Beat writer Jose Negron.

And while that has been, how do I put this, encouraged over the years by Major League Baseball itself, to be an arena of activity, there's nothing anyone can do to enforce that.

And if you end up with some, you know, big deal, regardless of who you are, the day before

the winter meetings or a couple days after everybody's left town, that's just how it goes.

Ben Charington, of course, has faced no such problems. The various winter

meetings that he's attended, he shows up, says the same thing to reporters four days in a row,

does the Rule 5 draft leaves. If anything were to happen this year, given the amount of payroll space, the pirates have carved

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