Round 1 Free Agent Signings

[Hammer]

Day 1 :



Day 2 :

Oakland : P Bruce Chen, 5,325,000 per year, for 3 years.
New York (N) : P Ted Lilly, 3,000,000 per year, for 2 years.
Cincinnati : P Vicente Padilla, 2,500,000 per year, for 3 years.
San Diego : LF Frank Catalanotto, 5,000,000 per year, for 2 years.
Florida : C Rod Barajas, 2,500,000 per year, for 2 years.
Tampa Bay : 1B Brad Fullmer, 400,000 per year, for 2 years.
Washington : P Ugueth Urbina, 2,200,000 per year, for 3 years.
Chicago (N) : P Aaron Fultz, 3,000,000 per year, for 2 years.
Chicago (N) : C Henry Blanco, 1,000,000 per year, for 1 year.
St. Louis : P Scott Williamson, 2,000,000 per year, for 3 years.
Colorado : CF Luis Terrero, 300,000 per year, for 3 years.
Chicago (N) : P Joe Borowski, 1,500,000 per year, for 1 year.
Tampa Bay : P Cliff Bartosh, 300,000 per year, for 1 year.


Day 3 :

Los Angeles (A) : P Andy Pettitte, 6,500,000 per year, for 3 years.
San Diego : P Barry Zito, 15,500,000 per year, for 4 years.
Washington : 2B D'Angelo Jimenez, 2,800,000 per year, for 2 years.
Cincinnati : CF Juan Pierre, 3,200,000 per year, for 4 years.
Cincinnati : 1B Travis Lee, 1,500,000 per year, for 2 years.
Philadelphia : P Byung-Hyun Kim, 1,000,000 per year, for 2 years.
Colorado : P Eddie Guardado, 1,600,000 per year, for 2 years.
Atlanta : P Gil Meche, 7,000,000 per year, for 4 years.
Oakland : 2B Chris Woodward, 1,050,000 per year, for 2 years.
Pittsburgh : P Rudy Seanez, 3,500,000 per year, for 1 year.


Day 4 :

Detroit : P Daisuke Matsuzaka, 12,110,000 per year, for 7 years.
Minnesota : SS Julio Lugo, 7,500,000 per year, for 3 years.
New York (N) : RF Jose Guillen, 7,000,000 per year, for 3 years.
Cleveland : DH Javy Lopez, 5,100,000 per year, for 1 year.
Texas : P J.C. Romero, 3,500,000 per year, for 3 years.


Day 5 :

Tampa Bay : 1B Kevin Millar, 1,300,000 per year, for 1 year.
Pittsburgh : P Jason Isringhausen, 7,500,000 per year, for 1 year.
Philadelphia : P LaTroy Hawkins, 2,000,000 per year, for 2 years.
Tampa Bay : P Brian Meadows, 700,000 per year, for 1 year.

[Dry1313]

Wooooooooohoooooooooo!

[Fishercat]

Holy crap on Meche

[Dry1313]

Oh yeah...half of Zito?

[McKain]

I got 2 of my 5 offers. I'm pleased.

[Fishercat]

As for Tampa, well, he got the 1B he wanted (so he can either platoon with Fullmer or play Millar until he falls and then throw him in the backup OF/1B position), and then I threw Bartosh a short deal on a whim and Meadows is a solid RP.

[Dry1313]

And for the record...I offered Matsusaka more.

[Fishercat]

A 1 star SP gets 7 million per for 4 years? Sure it wasn't supposed to be 700k?

[OrioleMagic]

Pierre is a flamer!!

I offered 3 years @ 4,100,000 per year... = 12.3 mil.

The flamer took 4 years at 3.2 mil... = 12.6 mil.

You would think he'd go for his last big contract at 32 instead of 33... but

On the flip side, I offer Romero $3.1 mil for 4 years and he takes 400k more for one less year...

OOTP is definitely unpredictable.

[OrioleMagic]

Overall... very conservative bids. Kudos to the league! the big money went where it should have so far... (with the Meche exception)

[OrioleMagic]

Overall... very conservative bids. Kudos to the league! the big money went where it should have so far... (with the Meche exception)

my top 3 signings:

Pettitte for 6.5 mil
Guillen for 7 mil
Lilly for 3

If I thought for the briefest of moments that Pettitte or Guillen would sign for less than 10 mil... I'd have been all over them. Very interesting first round.

[nick]

the Pettitte signing was just great... ratings wise, potentially the top pitcher. And he's signed really cheap, and for just the right amount of years. props to LA.

[Dry1313]

I overpaid a bit for what I wanted...but hell...I had the money, and neither should die by the time their contract is ending. I'm pleased.

[Hammer]

A 1 star SP gets 7 million per for 4 years? Sure it wasn't supposed to be 700k?

positive, it was sent to me from him through nick... so it went through 3 people, im fairly certain we got it right.

[Hammer]

my top 3 signings:

Pettitte for 6.5 mil
Guillen for 7 mil
Lilly for 3

If I thought for the briefest of moments that Pettitte or Guillen would sign for less than 10 mil... I'd have been all over them. Very interesting first round.

i forgot i offered to ted lilly truthfully... but jose guillen, i was pleasantly surprised to see only one other offer to him (from kc i believe, but not sure... the money was only 3x3 though).

matsuzaka took way less from dave than you, right dry? you were the one who offered 15+ for 5, right?