Winter business is dragging toward March, but it\u2019s finally time for our annual winter winners list. Here are players and teams with plenty to celebrate.<\/p>\n
1. Tarik Skubal<\/p>\n
His record $32 million arbitration win<\/a> with a record $13 million gap was landmark. He heads into his platform year poised to earn the biggest pitching contract ever.<\/p>\n 2. Tigers<\/p>\n It\u2019s weird to put the Tigers, the loser in Skubal\u2019s hearing, right behind Skubal. But they had a huge finish, adding bona fide ace Framber Valdez<\/a> and old friend\/all-time great Justin Verlander <\/a>late.<\/p>\n 3. Dodgers<\/p>\n The two-time defending champions enhanced their two tiny areas of imperfection, signing shutdown closer Edwin D\u00edaz and superstar outfielder Kyle Tucker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winter business is dragging toward March, but it\u2019s finally time for our annual winter winners list. Here are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[5,138,24,4245,161,53,29,57,4,2046,61,62,185,430,428,382],"class_list":["post-595054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-cubs","tag-baseball","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-chicagocubs","tag-cubs","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-kyle-tucker","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-free-agency","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus","tag-tarik-skubal"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116139684297561499","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}