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NEW YORK — The Mets blew past the luxury tax benchmark with their splashy winter meetings acquisitions and general manager Billy Eppler promised even more talent. One day after the meetings wrapped up, the club made good on that promise by re-signing outfielder Brandon Nimmo to an eight-year, $162 million…

ARLINGTON, Texas — The Mets really are going for it.

Jon Lester, Mookie Betts and now Xander Bogaerts.

Last month — nobody seems to recall the exact date, but it was between the end of the World Series and Thanksgiving — Dave Dombrowski, Sam Fuld, and Rob Thomson flew to Florida, sat down at Trea and Kristen Turner’s dinner table, and talked.

SAN DIEGO — Back in the city where their season ended, the Dodgers resorted to familiar behavior this week. Like their hitters in October, their executives froze in the batter's box at baseball's winter meetings.

LOS ANGELES — Two days after the Chicago Cubs took a chance on former Dodgers outfielder Cody Bellinger, the Dodgers did the same with a former Cubs star trying to revitalize his career.

After a decade in Boston, the 30-year-old shortstop accepted a reported 11-year, $280 million deal with San Diego.

The Padres are adding the All-Star slugger to an already deep lineup.

The San Diego Padres and Xander Bogaerts have agreed to a blockbuster $280 million, 11-year contract, adding the All-Star slugger to an already deep lineup

SAN DIEGO — The Mets are leaving the Winter Meetings with four new pitchers but have yet to find a center fielder or address the lack of power in the lineup.

DALLAS — Let’s just call this Rangers’ winter spending spree — apparently an annual event now — what it is. It’s a heck of a lot of fun. From a business standpoint, it could evolve into a nightmare but let’s not go all glass-half-empty while owner Ray Davis is throwing…