Winter Meetings - wikipedia Winter Meetings The Winter Meetings are an annual event, held each December, in which representatives of all 30 Major League Baseball teams and their 160 minor league baseball affiliates convene for four days to discuss league business and conduct off - season trades and transactions. Attendees include league executives, team owners, general managers, team scouts, visitors from baseball - playing countries, trade show exhibitors, and people seeking employment with minor league organizations. The Rule 5 draft, in which minor league players who are not on a team 's 40 - man roster can be drafted by a major league team, is held on the last day of the meetings. The 2017 Winter Meetings were held from December 9 to 13 at the Swan and Dolphin resort in Orlando, Florida. Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas will host in 2018. Contents 1 History 2 Attendees 3 Player trades and signings 4 Other events 5 Notes 5.1 References 5.2 Sources 6 Further reading 7 External links History The tradition of baseball holding off - season meetings during December dates back to 1876, the first offseason of the National League. At the 1876 meetings, William Hulbert was selected to be the league 's president, and two teams ( the New York Mutuals and Philadelphia Athletics ) were expelled from the league for failing to play all their scheduled games. The Winter Meetings became an annual event in 1901. 2020 2019 - San Diego 2018 - Paradise 2017 - Bay Lake 2016 - National Harbor 2015 - Nashville 2014 - San Diego 2013 - Bay Lake 2012 - Nashville 2011 - Dallas 2010 - Bay Lake 2009 - Indianapolis 2008 - Paradise 2007 - Nashville 2006 - Bay Lake 2005 - Dallas 2004 - Anaheim 2003 - New Orleans 2002 - Nashville 2001 - Boston 2000 - Dallas 1999 - Anaheim 1998 - Nashville 1997 - New Orleans 1996 - Boston 1995 - Los Angeles 1994 - Dallas 1993 - Atlanta 1992 - Louisville 1991 - Miami 1990 - Rosemont 1989 - Nashville 1988 - Atlanta 1987 - Dallas 1986 - Hollywood 1985 - San Diego 1984 - Houston 1983 - Nashville 1982 - Honolulu 1981 - Hollywood 1980 - Dallas 1979 - Toronto 1978 - Orlando 1977 - Honolulu 1976 - Los Angeles 1975 - Hollywood 1974 - New Orleans 1973 - Houston 1972 - Honolulu 1971 - Phoenix 1970 - Los Angeles 1969 - Fort Lauderdale 1968 - San Francisco 1967 - Mexico City 1966 - Columbus 1965 - Fort Lauderdale 1964 - Houston 1963 - San Diego 1962 - Rochester 1961 - Tampa 1960 - Louisville 1959 - St. Petersburg 1958 - Washington, D.C. 1957 - Colorado Springs 1956 - Jacksonville 1955 - Columbus 1954 - Houston 1953 - Atlanta 1952 - Phoenix 1951 - Columbus 1950 - St. Petersburg 1949 - New York City 1948 - Chicago 1947 - New York City 1946 - Los Angeles 1945 - Chicago 1944 - New York City 1943 - New York City 1942 - New York City 1941 - Jacksonville 1940 - Chicago 1939 - Cincinnati 1938 - New York City 1937 - Chicago 1936 - New York City 1935 - Chicago Attendees The Winter Meetings attract several thousand participants ; in 2014 organizers anticipated 3,000 attendees. These include team owners, field managers, team scouts, players ' agents, lawyers and accountants specializing in baseball, and visitors from baseball - playing countries. Baseball players generally do not attend, although free agents come to introduce themselves to many teams. At the 2014 Winter Meetings in San Diego, an estimated 750 media personnel received press passes. Receptions are held nightly by each of the 30 major league teams for their minor league affiliates. A luncheon is also held for major league managers and baseball reporters. Player trades and signings Barry Bonds playing for the San Francisco Giants in 1993 With all the principals in one place, the Winter Meetings are typically the site of player trades and free - agent signings. However, the informal meetings that used to take place in hotel lobbies up until the end of the 20th century have been replaced by texting and emailing ; most interactions take place in the privacy of suites due to the preponderance of media personnel and fans converging on the site. Among the notable trades and signings that have been made at the Winter Meetings are : At the 1975 Winter Meetings in Fort Lauderdale, new Chicago White Sox owner Bill Veeck sat at a table in the lobby behind a sign that said `` Open for Business ''. During the course of the meetings, Veeck negotiated six trades involving 22 players. At the 1988 Winter Meetings in Atlanta, the Texas Rangers closed three trades involving 15 players and signed free agent pitcher Nolan Ryan. At the 1992 Winter Meetings in Louisville, first - time free agent Barry Bonds was signed by the San Francisco Giants for six years and $43 million. Bonds personally negotiated to have a hotel suite at his disposal during road games. On the last day of the 2011 Winter Meetings in Dallas, Albert Pujols, who had won a World Series ring with the St. Louis Cardinals that fall, inked a 10 - year, $250 million deal with the Los Angeles Angels. In the space of 24 hours at the 2014 Winter Meetings in San Diego, the Los Angeles Dodgers concluded six transactions with four teams, involving 19 players and a free agent. Other events Pants Rowland, winner of the first `` King of Baseball '' award in 1951. Concurrent with the Winter Meetings, a trade show featuring close to 300 vendors of baseball equipment, services, and promotions takes place. Another annual event is the Professional Baseball Employment Opportunities Job Fair, during which recent college graduates seeking internships and employment with minor league organizations schedule on - site interviews. The month of December is considered `` the height of baseball hiring season '', as 400 to 500 workers are hired each year. Since 1951, the `` King of Baseball '' title has been awarded to a minor league veteran at the Winter Meetings banquet. Several events associated with the Hall of Fame also take place at the Winter Meetings : The voting bodies that superseded the Veterans Committee, which are now the only bodies that elect long - retired players and non-playing personnel, meet and vote. The winner of the Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in broadcasting is announced. The Baseball Writers ' Association of America conducts its annual meeting and announces the recipient of its J.G. Taylor Spink Award for excellence in baseball writing. Both the Frick and Spink Awards are presented as part of the Hall of Fame 's annual induction festivities. The Scout of the Year award is presented at a special banquet. Notes References ^ Jump up to : Peden 2011, p. 195. Jump up ^ `` 2014 Baseball Winter Meetings returns to San Diego after three decades ''. Minor League Baseball. 2014. Retrieved 18 January 2015. Jump up ^ Horn, Jonathan ( December 9, 2014 ). `` Baseball Jobs : Will work for peanuts ''. U-T San Diego. Retrieved 18 January 2015. Jump up ^ Links, Zach ( 11 December 2014 ). `` 2014 Rule 5 Draft Results ''. MLB Trade Rumors. Retrieved 11 December 2014. ^ Jump up to : Solomon & Freeman 2012, p. 185. Jump up ^ Gorman 2007, pp. 7 - 8. ^ Jump up to : Costa, Brian ( 9 December 2014 ). `` Baseball 's Winter Meetings -- Minus the Meetings ''. The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 18 January 2015. Jump up ^ Solomon & Freeman 2012, p. 182. ^ Jump up to : Waldstein, David ( 7 December 2014 ). `` Baseball 's Annual Winter Meetings Have It All, Except Quietude ''. The New York Times. Retrieved 18 January 2015. Jump up ^ Carroll 2007, p. 78. Jump up ^ Cassavell, AJ ( 2016 ). `` The biggest Winter Meetings trades of all time ''. MLB.com. Retrieved 28 January 2017. Jump up ^ Sypher 1990, p. 100. Jump up ^ Stark, Jayson ( 9 December 2011 ). `` Angels Shock the Baseball World ''. ESPN. Retrieved 18 January 2015. Jump up ^ Nightengale, Bob ( 12 December 2014 ). `` ' Aggressive ' winter meetings end with many winners ''. USA Today. Retrieved 18 January 2015. Jump up ^ Plunkett, Bill ( 11 December 2014 ). `` Kemp trade is latest piece of Dodgers ' reconstruction ''. Orange County Register. Retrieved 18 January 2015. Jump up ^ Barr, Chad ; Curtis, Ted ( 12 May 2012 ). `` Class is in Session at the Baseball Winter Meetings ''. The Huffington Post. Retrieved 18 January 2015. Jump up ^ Brown, Dwane ( 8 December 2014 ). `` Baseball Executives, Jobseekers In San Diego For Winter Meetings ''. KPBS. Jump up ^ `` King of Baseball Award by Minor League Baseball ''. Baseball Almanac. 2014. Retrieved 18 January 2015. Jump up ^ `` Ford C. Frick Award ''. National Baseball Hall of Fame. Retrieved 11 December 2014. Jump up ^ Geltner 2012, p. 203. Jump up ^ Elliott, Bob ( 10 December 2015 ). `` Blue Jays snag Giants pitcher in Rule V draft ''. Toronto Sun. Retrieved 12 December 2015. Jump up ^ Sandoval & Nowlin 2011, p. 165. Sources Carroll, Jeff ( 2007 ). Sam Rice : A Biography of the Washington Senators Hall of Famer. McFarland. ISBN 0786431199. Geltner, Ted ( 2012 ). Last King of the Sports Page : The Life and Career of Jim Murray. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 0826272738. Gorman, Lou ( 2007 ). High and Inside : My Life in the Front Offices of Baseball. McFarland. ISBN 0786431636. Peden, Buck ( 2011 ). Baseball, Golf, Wars, Women & Puppies : An Autobiography. AuthorHouse. ISBN 1456758438. Sandoval, Jim ; Nowlin, Bill, eds. ( 2011 ). Can He Play ? A look at baseball scouts and their profession. Society for American Baseball Research. ISBN 1933599235. Solomon, Arthur P. ; Freeman, Allyn I. ( 2012 ). Making It in the Minors : A Team Owner 's Lessons in the Business of Baseball. McFarland. ISBN 078649297X. Sypher, Beverly Davenport, ed. ( 1990 ). Case Studies in Organizational Communication ( Revised ed. ). Guilford Press. ISBN 0898622875. Further reading Lewin, Josh ( 2004 ). Getting in the Game : Inside Baseball 's Winter Meetings. Brasseys. ISBN 1574887912. 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