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Our reader poll had nearly 5,000 votes. Let’s see who you would have put into the Hall of Fame this year. nytimes.com/athletic/59641…

In today’s Windup, I wrote about how the A’s — specifically owner John Fisher — plan to spend over $1b on the new Vegas stadium. With the just-breaking news of the Luis Severino signing, it looks like they did have some cash laying around, after all. nytimes.com/athletic/59722…

Tickets just $20 at ferriswheelerslive.com for BBQ, Baseball and Blues , Tuesday night.

Dave Parker and Dick Allen are the newest Hall of Famers!

Source: Mets can void Soto’s opt-out after five years by by escalating his average annual average value from $51M to $55M over the last 10 years. On it: Jorge Castillo.

In today’s Windup — everything you need to know about the Juan Soto deal, plus: - Dick Allen & Dave Parker are HOF’ers - More names come off our Top 40 Big Board - Rays stadium update nytimes.com/athletic/59814…

The A’s didn’t give pitcher Luis Severino a club record contract solely to impress fans in Sacramento. The A’s need to add payroll — perhaps another $25 million or more — or they risk a grievance from the MLBPA. With ⁦⁦⁦⁦⁦Ken Rosenthal⁩ nytimes.com/athletic/59824…

.Jen McCaffrey wrote on Joel Wolfe discussing the posting process for Roki Sasaki, which is officially underway: nytimes.com/athletic/59846…

Source confirms: Max Fried to Yankees, eight years, $218M, pending physical. Biggest deal for a left-hander and fourth largest pitching contract in game’s history. First: Jeff Passan

Source confirms: Rangers in agreement with free-agent RHP Nathan Eovaldi, pending physical. First: Robert Murray

The Rangers are acquiring 1B/3B Jake Burger from the Marlins, sources tells The Athletic. Return not yet known.

From Garrett Crochet to Max Fried to Kyle Tucker to Andres Giménez to Nathan Eovaldi (etc etc etc), it was a pretty packed Windup today as the Winter Meetings come to a close. nytimes.com/athletic/59898…

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In today’s Windup: - An ode to Rickey Henderson - about a million signings and trades from the last week - also Joc Pederson (Rangers) and Walker Buehler (Red Sox) signed after this was written, so they’re not in this one nytimes.com/athletic/60156…

WE HAVE EXCITING NEWS! Today, workers from The Athletic sent a letter to Times management calling on them to recognize Athletic editorial workers as members of the Times Guild. We are thrilled to have them in our union.

We are heartbroken to announce that Brewers icon & Baseball Hall of Famer Bob Uecker passed away today at the age of 90

At least Jeff got the quasi-polite first paragraph. Here’s the reply I got, also attributed to Ullyot.