This Sunday, the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs will face off in Super Bowl LIX.

Don't fret. The sports calendar will hardly ease up from there. In addition to March Madness looming and the NBA and NHL getting deeper into their respective seasons, pitchers and catchers from all 30 teams will report to spring training next week.

With that said, the offseason is hardly over from a transactions perspective. Here are four dominoes that still need to fall, ideally before the start of spring training games and certainly in advance of Opening Day.

4. Where Will Veteran Relievers Land?

The following veteran relievers are still free agents.

Kenley Jansen: The four-time All-Star is definitely still good enough to have an MLB job, having posted a 3.29 ERA over 54 games with the Boston Red Sox last year. With that said, he's fourth in MLB history with 440 saves, and Ken Rosenthal and Will Sammon of The Athletic recently reported that while he drew interest from the New York Mets, he still wants to close. To get that opportunity, he may need to go to a lesser team or sign somewhere that he's not guaranteed the closer's job and pitch himself into it.

David Robertson: Set to turn 40 in July, Robertson has had a massively under-appreciated career because he hasn't always been the closer for whatever team he's been pitching for. But he's accumulated 21.7 WAR over 16 MLB seasons, and posted a 3.00 ERA in 68 games for the Texas Rangers a season ago.

Héctor Neris: Did you know that since 2016, Neris leads all MLB pitchers with 575 games pitched? The next-closest is Jansen at 533. So he's been as reliable as anyone in terms of consistently taking the ball, and his splitter has made him a typically effective option in the seventh or eighth inning. The 35-year-old posted a 4.10 ERA in 2024, a season he split between the Chicago Cubs and Houston Astros. But his durability alone makes him someone worth taking a shot on.

Phil Maton: He took the ball 71 times a season ago, splitting the campaign between the Tampa Bay Rays and New York Mets. The 31-year-old was particularly effective after being acquired by the Mets, posting a 2.51 ERA over 31 games.

Kyle Finnegan: The Washington Nationals made Finnegan a surprise non-tender in November after he posted a 5.79 ERA following the All-Star break. With that said, he had a 2.45 ERA and 25 saves in the first half of the season, and was picked for his first All-Star team. The 33-year-old is an interesting rebound candidate.

Craig Kimbrel: After being released by the Baltimore Orioles in September, it's possible that the 36-year-old's career is over. The nine-time All-Star was pretty effective for the O's in the first half of the season, posting a 2.80 ERA across 39 games. But he imploded after the All-Star Game, with a 10.59 ERA in 18 appearances. Certainly, no one is bringing Kimbrel in to be their closer, despite him being fifth in MLB history with 440 saves. Assuming he wants to pitch in a 16th season, he may need to take a minor league deal with an invite to spring training.

3. Will Jordan Montgomery Be Traded?

With Jordan Montgomery, it's fairly cut and dried. The Diamondbacks have a surplus of quality starting pitching after signing former NL Cy Young Award winner Corbin Burnes, adding him to a rotation that includes Zac Gallen, Merrill Kelly, Brandon Pfaadt and Eduardo Rodríguez.

Someone is probably going to be the odd man out, and after posting a 6.23 ERA and looking out of shape during his first season in Phoenix, Montgomery would seem to be the best bet in that regard.

In case you forgot, Diamondbacks owner Ken Kendrick seemingly made things untenable for Montgomery with his criticism of the lefty early in the offseason:

Kendrick may have hoped those comments would convince Montgomery to decline his $22.5 million player option for 2025, but that was never going to happen. Still, Kendrick made the comments, so a split is probably best for everyone involved.

It is worth remembering that for as disastrous as 2024 was for Montgomery, he was a World Series hero for the Texas Rangers the prior season. That came after a regular season when he posted a 3.20 ERA across 188.2 innings split between the St. Louis Cardinals and Rangers. There's no reason to think that with a full spring training—he didn't sign with Arizona until March 29 last year—Montgomery won't have a resurgence in 2025.

The Diamondbacks will likely have to eat a chunk of the $22.5 million owed to Montgomery this year to facilitate a trade, which ESPN's Jeff Passan reported earlier this offseason that they are willing to do.

If the Diamondbacks eat, say, $10 million, some team is going to get a motivated Montgomery at what will likely prove to be a team-friendly price for a season.

2. How Will Things Shake Out in San Diego?

Manny Machado is one of the faces of the Padres, and he admitted over the weekend at the club's FanFest that he's disappointed with how the offseason has gone so far after a 93-win season a year ago:

Well, one way or another, it projects to be an active spring training for president of baseball operations A.J. Preller and Co. That may entail simultaneously adding and subtracting.

Dylan Cease, Michael King and Luis Arráez are all entering contract seasons and have been mentioned in trade rumors. Cease finished fourth in NL Cy Young Award voting last season. King finished seventh. Arráez, acquired in early May from the Miami Marlins, won his third consecutive batting title. If any of those three are traded, it would be a massive loss.

At the same time, Preller—per MLB.com's AJ Cassavell—said that the Padres plan to be a World Series contender in 2025, adding that they "gotta add a bat or two, gotta add an arm or two."

Time is ticking. Preller showed an ability last offseason to balance competing interests when he traded Juan Soto to the New York Yankees, netting a return that brought back King and later helped the Padres to land Cease from the Chicago White Sox.

But there's a human element here. Some guys, like Cease, can be traded to an entirely different setting days before the start of the season and thrive. Others won't. Sometimes when you bring in accomplished players, their personalities don't end up fitting in a clubhouse already full of big names.

Preller may be forced to both trade for and sign pieces—while potentially trading some away—as Cactus League play is going on. It could work, as he's certainly proved capable of pulling off major deals. But it puts a lot of pressure on manager Mike Shildt to quickly build a culture that allows the Padres to compete in a division where the Dodgers, Diamondbacks and San Francisco Giants have all improved this offseason.

1. Will Pete Alonso and Alex Bregman Leave Long-Time Teams?

Pete Alonso has 226 career home runs, and with one more typical season in Flushing, could pass Daryl Strawberry's all-time New York Mets mark of 252 home runs.

Alex Bregman is one of the five greatest players in Astros history, having helped Houston to win four AL pennants and two World Series titles in nine seasons.

It would feel wrong for either to leave the only teams they've ever played for while they are still All-Star-caliber players. But there seems to be a distinct possibility that happens with one or both as each are still free agents.

Alonso is coming off a relatively down year, but he still hit 34 home runs and had a monster postseason as the Mets made a rather shocking run to the NLCS. That the Mets are holding so firm on Alonso—Joel Sherman and Dan Martin of the New York Post say they've offered a three-year, $68-$70 million deal—seems a bit strange from here.

Yes, power hitters may not age well, but he's only 30. Is there anyone who thinks that if you sign Alonso for four or five years that that deal would become an albatross? Or at least, couldn't they up the money Alonso is making if he takes a short-term deal with opt-outs?

Notably, though, the Mets haven't yet made other concrete plans. Their best team in 2025 would still include Alonso playing first base and protecting Soto in the lineup. Could they roll with Mark Vientos at first base and some combination of Brett Baty, Luisangel Acuña and Nick Madrigal at third base? Sure, but the team would be worse for it.

As for Bregman, the Astros are pretty well set up even if he doesn't come back, having acquired Isaac Paredes and Christian Walker this offseason. Houston hasn't ruled out shifting Paredes to second base and having Jose Altuve try to play left field if Bregman ends up back, but they'd likely feel pretty good with Paredes at third base and Walker at first on Opening Day if things play out that way.

There have been conflicting reports this offseason about the level of interest that the Boston Red Sox have in Bregman. The Tigers—led by A.J. Hinch, Bregman's first manager at the MLB level—have been seen for much of the offseason as the most likely landing spot if the two-time All-Star leaves Houston. But clearly they haven't put an offer on the table that blows Bregman away either.

Jon Heyman of the New York Post recently reported that in addition to the six-year, $156 million offer that the Astros have made to Bregman, he "also has a lucrative six-year offer (with an opt-out after the first year) from a team that may not be high on his list."

Pretty soon, both Alonso and Bregman—each of whom is repped by Scott Boras—are going to have to decide on what offer they will accept, even if it's under what they entered the offseason looking for. One or both could go back to their long-time clubs, but each may do so with a deal that allows them to return to free agency again next offseason without a qualifying offer attached to them.