Jason Heyward

1. Navigating Nashville, Music City USA and Baseball’s Epicenter This Week

You probably think the most difficult thing for a general manager at the winter meetings is completing that three-way trade to land an ace or boxing out four other teams to land a bat.

The rarest find in free agency is a 10-year contract. There have only been a few, and there isn't exactly an abundance of candidates for one this winter.

There is one, though. If anybody is going to land a 10-year contract, it's Jason Heyward.

Little to nothing is guaranteed in Major League Baseball. That includes player production, and especially when you are counting on it for an extended block of time.

That is why signing free agents to huge deals for hundreds of millions of dollars—or even tens of millions—is such a risky and unpredictable proposition for all 30 front offices. The long-term mega contracts always have a realistic chance of busting. It’s the nature of people; it’s the nature of the baseball business.

If the Kansas City Royals taught the world anything in going to the World Series in 2014 and winning the Commissioner's Trophy in 2015, it's that defense matters. Like, a lot.

Apparently, the Los Angeles Angels were paying very close attention.

From Zack Greinke to Aroldis Chapman, both the MLB free-agent market and the trade block are stocked with impact arms.

For now, no one knows just where exactly those stars will end up. However, after considering team needs for 2016 and taking into account all the latest buzz, here are some surprise destinations that make sense as potential landing spots.

The MLB general managers meetings convene this weekend, and an already hot stove will get even hotter as personnel planners meet on the shores of Boca Raton, Florida. 

Jason Heyward is a different kind of elite baseball player.

His traditional statistics are not the stuff of legend. He doesn’t bang balls off of scoreboards, and he might never be the all-world run producer traditionalists fawn over. His name has never been instantly recognizable by the casual sports fan, and his jersey might never crack the top five in Major League Baseball’s sales rankings.

Through a season full of injuries and, at times, uncertainty, Jason Heyward was a constant.

With the exception of a broken jaw suffered in 2013, St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Jason Heyward has been fairly durable since making his MLB debut in 2010. However, he left Monday's game against the San Francisco Giants after the second inning with a hamstring injury.

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Jason Heyward doesn’t need his sense of sight to play right field for the St. Louis Cardinals—he only needs touch.

With the sun in his eyes and the baseball gods on his side, Heyward made a no-look grab in the top of the eighth inning as his team held a 3-2 advantage on Saturday.