Dave Dombrowski, Boston's new president of baseball operations, asked some of his staff to arrive by afternoon to get a head start on the annual general managers' meetings, which began with a dinner Monday night. Since the start of August, new general managers have been appointed for Detroit, Milwaukee, Boston, Seattle, Atlanta, the Los Angeles Angels, Oakland, Cincinnati and Philadelphia, and Toronto has an interim baseball operations head. Combine the change with a free-agent class that includes starting pitchers Zack Greinke, David Price, Johnny Cueto, Jordan Zimmermann, Jeff Samardzija and Scott Kazmir, and executives schmoozing each other at the Boca Raton Resort & Club don't want to be left out of the marketplace for both signings and trades. More...