2053 Round 1 signings

[HollywoodLeo]

Day 1 :



Day 2 :

Arizona : P Hideki Irabu, 10,500,000 per year, for 4 years.
Baltimore : 2B Stan Musial, 17,000,000 per year, for 2 years.
Arizona : 3B Ron Santo, 7,500,000 per year, for 2 years.
Montreal : 3B George Stirnweiss, 1,500,000 per year, for 2 years.
Atlanta : CF Dom DiMaggio, 1,250,000 per year, for 1 year.
Minnesota : P Andrew Evans, 5,000,000 per year, for 3 years.
Detroit : P Bradley Tyus, 350,000 per year, for 2 years.


Day 3 :

Texas : P Paul Trout, 8,000,000 per year, for 3 years.
New York (A) : 1B Lou Gehrig, 20,000,000 per year, for 2 years.
Oakland : P Dean Chance, 5,200,000 per year, for 4 years.
San Diego : C Jeff McLaren, 1,500,000 per year, for 1 year.


Day 4 :

Anaheim : P Burleigh Grimes, 8,000,000 per year, for 1 year.
San Diego : C Paul Propes, 340,000 per year, for 3 years.
Colorado : RF Harry Heilmann, 500,000 per year, for 2 years.


Day 5 :

Arizona : CF Ruben Rivera, 15,000,000 per year, for 5 years.
Baltimore : P John Kelemen, 3,575,000 per year, for 1 year.


Day 6 :

Oakland : CF Peter Mei, 600,000 per year, for 1 year.
Detroit : P Vern German, 350,000 per year, for 2 years.


Day 7 :

St. Louis : C Johnny Bench, 9,000,000 per year, for 4 years.
Minnesota : SS Andrew Spencer, 4,000,000 per year, for 3 years.
Baltimore : 2B Ozzie Smith, 4,188,000 per year, for 5 years.
Texas : P Hoyt Wilhelm, 4,000,000 per year, for 3 years.


Day 8 :

Baltimore : C Mickey Cochrane, 7,155,000 per year, for 1 year.
Minnesota : P Joseph Robertson, 4,000,000 per year, for 2 years.
Detroit : 2B Junior Giles, 350,000 per year, for 2 years.
Detroit : P Marvin Dailey, 350,000 per year, for 2 years.
Colorado : C Bill Dickey, 500,000 per year, for 2 years.


Day 9 :



Day 10 :

San Diego : P Harry Gumbert, 2,500,000 per year, for 2 years.
Minnesota : P Sabas Mariscal, 3,000,000 per year, for 2 years.
Los Angeles : P Martin Saleem, 2,000,000 per year, for 2 years.

[cjkalt]

Trout is an idiot, in real life his agent would get fired lol...

glad to get chance back in oakland

[HollywoodLeo]

Meanwhile, Ruben Rivera's agent would get a raise.

[Hammer]

yea, blue ivy carter is rubens agent

[Kingdom]

I hope Arizona remembers to promote those guys

[PhillyFan]

Trout really signed for that? He wouldn't take 15 million in an extension. This game pisses me off sometimes.

[Hammer]

its bad enough baltimore is such a monster for years to come... now they have to steal all the middle infielders i need to fill out a goddamn roster.

[Providence A's]

Damn it all.

[Slyder]

Salaam retires a Dodger.

[Foster]

I missed on everyone I made an offer on, and feel decent about it based on what they went for.

Which is sad, cause I do have a lot of money and I should be the one making those ridiculous offers.

[OrioleMagic]

its bad enough baltimore is such a monster for years to come... now they have to steal all the middle infielders i need to fill out a goddamn roster.

Blame JC for not accepting my trade offer for Ozzie at the deadline. Sorry bro. Ozzie's defense and speed were important to me, with the rest of my lineup. Now Benny the Jet can play 3B where he belongs. You topped my offer for Burleigh... maybe that evens it out.


BTW, Gehrig takes $20M less in free agency, forcing me to overpay Musial.

[HollywoodLeo]

I think OOTP logic is at its worst when it comes to extension demands compared to what they accept in free agency if extensions fail.

As already pointed out by Phillyfan, Paul Trout is an even worse example.

[Kingdom]

Safe to say this was one of the more dramatic rounds of free agency in a while.

[Kingdom]

Also, Leo can attest, I think we were both really off on our Johnny Bench predictions. :drakelol:

[Trendy Bastard]

I made what I felt like were fair offers to the younger ones. There just wasn't one I was ready to overspend on yet. Hopefully some of my prospects develop over the season so I can be more aggressive next year.