2054 Free Agency round 1 signings

[HollywoodLeo]

Day 1 :



Day 2 :

Los Angeles : CF Ben Chapman, 2,000,000 per year, for 1 year.
St. Louis : 2B Daniel Davis, 1,500,000 per year, for 1 year.
Anaheim : P Christopher Barton, 4,500,000 per year, for 1 year.


Day 3 :

Texas : P Todd Kerr, 5,000,000 per year, for 3 years.
San Diego : P Alfred Orlandi, 1,500,000 per year, for 1 year.


Day 4 :

San Francisco : P Hyun-jin Ryu, 13,500,000 per year, for 4 years.
Houston : P Ronnie Berk, 2,000,000 per year, for 3 years.
St. Louis : CF Al Simmons, 3,500,000 per year, for 2 years.
Oakland : LF Daryl Bell, 400,000 per year, for 1 year.


Day 5 :

Montreal : P Masahiro Tanaka, 18,000,000 per year, for 8 years.
Oakland : 1B John Olerud, 5,200,000 per year, for 4 years.
Anaheim : 2B Charles Gehringer, 3,000,000 per year, for 1 year.
St. Louis : CF Curt Flood, 2,500,000 per year, for 2 years.
San Diego : P Boris Alonso, 750,000 per year, for 2 years.


Day 6 :

Detroit : SS Derek Jeter, 14,000,000 per year, for 5 years.
St. Louis : 2B Mark Sellers, 6,000,000 per year, for 5 years.
San Diego : LF Jim Rice, 3,500,000 per year, for 4 years.
Oakland : P Rupert Azcarraga, 350,000 per year, for 1 year.


Day 7 :

St. Louis : P Dick Radatz, 4,500,000 per year, for 2 years.
Houston : P Roy Face, 1,000,000 per year, for 1 year.
Boston : 3B Joseph Vaughan, 550,000 per year, for 3 years.


Day 8 :

Baltimore : P Wes Ferrell, 401,000 per year, for 1 year.
Los Angeles : P Jesse Dearmond, 2,000,000 per year, for 2 years.


Day 9 :

San Diego : P Hisashi Iwakuma, 9,700,000 per year, for 3 years.


Day 10 :

New York (N) : C Perry Milbourn, 500,000 per year, for 1 year.

[Porter]

5 out of 9.

[Providence A's]

Too many years for Ryu? He takes less money per year and less years...that makes sense. $15 mil x 8 years was my offer. No one else would even listen. BS.

[HollywoodLeo]

That's what he said in the email

Date: Sunday, 1/29/2054
Subject: Contract offer
Please decrease the number of years in your
offer, otherwise I won't be interested at all!

Regards,
Hyun-jin Ryu

[Providence A's]

I know. It was a rhetorical question.

[Kingdom]

I'd say you're better off.

[Trendy Bastard]

Here's to another top 3 pick

[PhillyFan]

You either need to overpay by alot or get no FA's. I missed out on 1 guy.

[Providence A's]

I'd say you're better off.

Yea. Probably. None of the other big FAs would even talk Jeter, Tanaka, Iwakuma, etc.

It's hard to improve when FAs won't listen and the trade market is what it is.

[Kingdom]

Yeah I'm not thrilled by OOTPs frustrating system with marketing and fan interest. Not that I would have had a chance given the comical contracts.

[PhillyFan]

I thought we were having something done about the Marketing?

[HollywoodLeo]

I'm doing something, but I don't know how big of an impact it's having honestly.

[Porter]

I didn't massively overpay and got 5 guys. It's possible.

[Kingdom]

You got 5 guys that are either past their prime and/or are mediocre.

[LJMets1989]

Missed out on Tanaka by two years and $1M per. Offered Olerud the same amount over one less year. Woulda been a nice boost to grab all three with my up and coming prospects


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