With Major League Baseball’s winter GM Meetings having wrapped up last week, the league's 30 general managers are in the midst of off-season renovations. TSN.ca looks at the day’s hottest rumours as free agent season gets off the ground.

New suitor for Panda

The San Diego Padres have emerged as the fifth known team interested in San Francisco Giants free agent third baseman Pablo Sandoval.

CBS Sports' Jon Heyman reports that the Padres are keen on bringing the three-time World Series winner across the NL West after watching him up close for the last seven years.

The Padres join the Giants, Toronto Blue Jays, Chicago White Sox and Boston Red Sox as the teams known to be pursuing the 28-year-old Venezuelan. Sandoval is expected to meet with the Red Sox some time this week.

San Diego has already been active this off-season. The team posted the accepted bid for 26-year-old South Korean lefty Kwang Hyun Kim. The team has until December 12 to reach an agreement with the player after having their bid, reported to be in the $2 million range, accepted by SK Wyverns of the Korea Baseball Organization.

The Padres are also believed to be among the clubs tracking Cuban outfielder Yosmany Tomas.

Boras not worried on Scherzer

Baseball mega-agent Scott Boras says that he's not worried about a lack of a market for his client, Detroit Tigers free agent starter, Max Scherzer.

Boras also countered early reports that the Tigers were no longer interested in retaining the services of the 2013 American League Cy Young Award winner.

“I’ve never heard anything from anyone to suggest they’re not,” Boras told MLB Network Radio's Jim Bowden and Jim Duquette on Sunday. “You have to remember that over the past 3-4 years, when you go back and look at the Detroit Tigers, as good as they are with all the offensive weaponry and pitching they have, when Max Scherzer pitches, they win 70% of their games. In all other games, the Tigers play at about 54%. So Max Scherzer has a huge impact on the success of the Detroit Tigers.”

The 30-year-old Scherzer is among those at the top end of this year's free agent starters along with Jon Lester of the Oakland Athletics and Kansas City Royals right-hander James Shields. Boras believes that a suitor for Scherzer might not be one with an obvious need for a starter and would sign him in a "two-step process" that involved trading an incumbent member of its rotation.

“Say you need bullpen or you need catching or you need offense, whatever your other weakness," Boras explained. "You can trade one of your good pitchers for someone like that and also then add a number one, which then strengthens your team in two areas."

Scherzer finished 2014 at 18-5 with a 3.15 ERA and 1.175 WHIP in 220.1 innings over 33 starts.