The winter meetings begin today in Indianapolis and the major theme appears to be fiscal prudence.  There is no suggestion that either Jason Bay, Matt Holliday or John Lackey will find a new home soon.  The Mariners signing of Chone Figgins could be the biggest news of the meetings.

The Boston Red Sox have reportedly signed shortshop Marco Scutaro to a two year deal with an option according to the Boston Globe.  The deal is pending a physical but the linked story says Scutaro's heel has apparently.......wait for it!...... healed!  Get it?

Twitter has all the news tonight.  Per Jordan Bastian the Jays are close to signing John McDonald to a one year $1.5m contract.  Jeff Blair tweets that a baseball guy with another organization said he thinks the Jays are 90% likely to trade Lyle Overbay at the winter meetings.  Finally Bastian twitters that the Jays have called on Yorvit Torrealba multiple times and are expected to make an offer.  Blair guesses that there is a 50% chance that Doc could be an ex-Jay after the winter meetings.

To nobody's surprise (one hopes), Minnesota backstop Joe Mauer is your 2009 AL MVP. Yankee teammates Mark Teixeira and Derek Jeter split the Bronx vote to finish second and third, respectively. Tiger Miguel Cabrera, who finished fourth, received one first-place vote, with all the others going to Joltin' Joe of the Twin Cities. 

Tim Linceum wins a very close vote to take home his second Cy Young Award.

To the surprise of (hopefully) no one, Zack Greinke has won the AL Cy Young.

Chris Coghlan of the Florida Marlins may be pouring a cocktail or two today as he wins the National League Rookie of the Year award.

According to reports, Oakland A's relief pitcher Andrew Bailey is the American League Rookie of the Year, receiving 13 of 28 first-place votes and 88 points. Texas Rangers shortstop Elvis Andrus was the runner-up with 65 points, one ahead of Detroit Tigers RHSP Rick Porcello.

I think they got the top three right, but frankly, I would have gone Andrus-Porcello-Bailey or even Porcello-Andrus-Bailey. Your thoughts, noble Bauxites?

Congratulations to second baseman Aaron Hill and designated hitter Adam Lind for winning Silver Slugger Awards for 2009 according to Jordan Bastian from bluejays.com.  A tip of the graphite Jays cap to Bauxite perlhack for the heads up.

The 2009 American League Gold Glove Awards have been "handed" out and are presented here entirely without comment from Batter's Box, as a means of inviting your comments and corrections, Bauxites around the world ...