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MLB offseason buzz: Intel on free agency, trade rumors, more

Does Pete Alonso fit into the Mets' -- and Yankees' -- winter plans? Here's what our MLB experts are hearing as the offseason begins EPA/CJ GUNTHER

Let the MLB hot stove season begin!

As players become free to sign with any team they choose (free agency officially begins at 5 p.m. ET on Monday), we asked our MLB reporters to open their notebooks with all of the intel they collected from execs, agents and other baseball insiders during the postseason.

What is the latest on Juan Soto's historic free agency? How will the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees approach the offseason after meeting in the World Series? Which other teams are generating the most buzz across the industry? And who could be traded this winter?

Here is what we're hearing as the hot stove ignites.