Free Agent Period 3 Signings

[Providence A's]

Day 11 :



Day 12 :

Colorado : DH Travis Hafner, 14,600,000 per year, for 2 years.
Toronto : 2B Alex Cintron, 7,650,000 per year, for 2 years.


Day 13 :

Anaheim : 1B Paul Konerko, 7,400,000 per year, for 1 year.
Florida : 2B Felipe Lopez, 2,200,000 per year, for 3 years.
San Francisco : P Jason Isringhausen, 6,000,000 per year, for 2 years.
Colorado : P Brian Wilson, 1,100,000 per year, for 3 years.
San Francisco : P Keith Foulke, 1,000,000 per year, for 1 year.


Day 14 :

Tampa Bay : P Willie Eyre, 950,000 per year, for 3 years.
Boston : P Mike Maroth, 1,500,000 per year, for 2 years.


Day 15 :

Chicago (N) : 3B David Wright, 25,300,000 per year, for 5 years.
Toronto : LF Nelson Cruz, 2,750,000 per year, for 2 years.


Day 16 :

Tampa Bay : P Gustavo Chacin, 8,000,000 per year, for 4 years.
Colorado : LF Shannon Stewart, 2,100,000 per year, for 1 year.
Boston : P Armando Benitez, 5,000,000 per year, for 1 year.
Colorado : P Eric Cyr, 333,000 per year, for 2 years.


Day 17 :

Boston : SS Kelly Johnson, 5,000,000 per year, for 3 years.
Colorado : RF Joey Gathright, 3,000,000 per year, for 4 years.


Day 18 :

St. Louis : C Ramon Castro, 775,000 per year, for 2 years.


Day 19 :

St. Louis : 1B Dan Johnson, 925,000 per year, for 3 years.


Day 20 :

San Diego : P Armando Colella, 4,000,000 per year, for 1 year.
Boston : P Brad Penny, 900,000 per year, for 2 years.
Boston : 2B Aaron Hill, 300,000 per year, for 2 years.

[browntown653]

Hooray for ridiculous Chacin contracts!

And Travis Hafner deserves at least $15 mil. C'mon now.

[browntown653]

And HOLY SHIT DAVID WRIGHT SIGNED A MASSIVE CONTRACT

HOT DOG

[Halladay_is_God]

I offered Chacin the same amount for only for 3 years though

he was my going to be my key free agent

[Providence A's]

and Brazelton's already gone, too

Actually, Brownie made that offer today for some reason.

SP 2.0 Sergio Mitre is still available though...better than any of the other SP options in FA...he wouldn't take much either.

[Providence A's]

oh, and $16 mil was the next closest offer to Wright. Way to overshoot by 9 mil, eh?

[nick]

bullpen help ahoy

[DMBZeppelin]

I know I over paid for Wright A LOT! Tejada at 33 years old got $16.5 over 4 years. I originally was going to offer Wright about $17.5 over 7 years. Which was $122.5 total which over 5 years is $24.5 million per. So I figured I'd just make sure I got him and offered him $25 per over 5 years for a total of $125 million which would be $17.85 over 7 years.

When he didn't sign with my after the 1st round I got nervous. So in case anyone decided to match me I offered an extra 300k per year to beat anything similar to mine. Which would make it about $18 million per over 7. But I decided to give him more per year over 5 years so I can get out of his contract sooner and then extend him at a reasonable price (if his talent holds up).

[krush]

shannon sterwat can blow me

[bjd2933]

Glad I passed... not much out there when you have 6 million dollars to spend. I'll just build from within this season.

[Dam8610]

Boo Colorado. I wanted the popularity boost. Outbidding me by $4 million...

[mntwinsfan]

25.3 million at 5 years is crazy for Wright. I remember the day I took on Pujols and I was screwed for 4 years. I hope this signing won't bite you in the ass. Some crazy money being spent!

[OrioleMagic]

I cannot believe no one bid on Dan Johnson. I would have offered him 7-9M if Pronk wasn't around. I bid 14.1M on Chacin but the bastard didn't like me. I think $3M was too much for Gathright, but he refused $2.5M. FA has sooooo many variables with the A.I. always a factor and then the unpredictableness of the other GM's money wise and target wise. Johnson, Berkman, and Chen are three steals. Great Job to the people who signed them.

[Providence A's]

I offered Johnson less than he wanted...IIRC he wanted approximately $1.3 mil or so for 2 years...it didn't really matter because I wasn't going to offer him a lot. I figured since no one made an offer I could get him cheaply. I just wanted an upgrade at backup 1B. It's not my fault that no one else made an offer to him. He'll also be injury insurance, but he's not really going to play a lot. He'll give me a nice bat off the bench.

[DMBZeppelin]

25.3 million at 5 years is crazy for Wright. I remember the day I took on Pujols and I was screwed for 4 years. I hope this signing won't bite you in the ass. Some crazy money being spent!

I currently have the 2nd (Wright) and 7th (Helton) highest paid players in the game, but I'm only 6th in payroll. I won't be doing much in upcoming free agencies, but I'm hoping as long as I can extend my own people. That I should have a contender over those 5 years I gave him.