Billy Beane has been in the baseball business long enough to know how all the offseason speculation fuels the sport until spring training rolls around. From whether Alex Rodriguez would head West or stay put in Yankee pinstripes to where Twins ace Johan Santana might land for 2008, it's already been an interesting winter on the baseball front. Now, as the winter meetings approach next week, everybody wants to know whether Oakland's crafty GM will offer up his top pitchers -- Dan Haren, Joe Blanton, Rich Harden or even closer Huston Street -- to better his own low-budget operation.