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With less than two months until teams report to spring training, it's crunch time for MLB general managers looking to put the finishing touches on their offseason masterpieces.

Several teams are probably already done making major moves. The Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres have been extraordinarily busy, and their roster overhauls will be on display as soon as camp gets underway.

General managers around MLB have reached the point where the available free agents are largely unimpressive, forcing them to focus on trades as a means to improve their rosters.

If you happen to have sneaked a peek at the position players still available in free agency lately, you probably noticed something right away—there's not much left out there worth getting excited about. Except for Yoan Moncada, the next Cuban phenom.

Take a look at the American League East right now, and you'll see it has a fairly typical collection of star power. The Boston Red Sox and Toronto Blue Jays have most of it after their winter shopping sprees, but the New York Yankees, Tampa Bay Rays and Baltimore Orioles each have their share.

Every year, a handful of Major League Baseball players emerge from relative obscurity to become key contributors for their respective teams and household names to baseball fans across the country.

The breakout performance of guys like Jonathan Lucroy and Corey Kluber stole the headlines in 2014, but those two were relatively well-known around the league heading into the 2014 season.

The Boston Red Sox are among the most aggressive teams in baseball so far this offseason.  They signed a pair of big-name free-agent bats in Pablo Sandoval and Hanley Ramirez.  The Red Sox also revamped their starting rotation with Rick Porcello, Wade Miley and Justin Masterson.

The new year is almost upon us, which means so are New Year's resolutions.

It is a tradition for people to come up with changes they want to make in their lives, whether it be eating healthier, going to the gym more or quitting a bad habit like smoking. We all have areas in which we would love to improve.

So do the New York Yankees.

When the Toronto Blue Jays first acquired Kyle Drabek in 2009 as part of a package of prospects from the Philadelphia Phillies in exchange for ace Roy Halladay, the team’s hope was that Drabek would eventually develop into a frontline starter in the major leagues.

There's usually a lull in the MLB offseason during the holidays, but expect the peace and quiet to come to an end once the calendar turns to 2015. There's still wheeling and dealing to be done.

For now, it seems as if even the MLB trade rumors have taken a backseat to eggnog and caroling. The few we do have focus on players with the ability to play the outfield.

In one of the busiest MLB offseasons in recent memory, teams have wasted little time crossing items off of their winter to-do list.

However, as we get set to flip the calendar over to 2015, all 30 teams still have at least a couple of areas to focus on between now and the start of spring training.

Whether it is plugging a roster hole with a free-agent signing, trading off an expensive or unnecessary roster piece or extending a player ahead of free agency, every team has something left to cross off this offseason.