While the winter meetings are generating buzz about big-name players in Orlando, other free-agent signings have been quietly going on across Major League Baseball.

Over Thanksgiving week, lots of minor leaguers signed contracts with new organizations that were not reflected on the official MLB.com transactions wire until several days later. One of those deals was signed by former New York Yankees farmhand Omar Martinez, a 24-year-old catcher who elected free agency in November after over seven years in the organization.

Martinez, who reached Triple-A for the first time this past season after beginning the year in High-A, is headed to an organization with a less crowded catching pipeline at the upper levels of the minors: the Los Angeles Angels.

On Nov. 28, Martinez signed a minor-leag

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