[boilermaker]

FREE AGENCY SIGNINGS

Alright, I have two new players! Welcome to the Texas Rangers organization:

-RF Geoff Jenkins: 4-years at a total value of $15.7 million. Pretty steep, maybe, but the last year is an option year and there's incentives in the deal. On top of that, while collectively I like my outfield, I've been spreading out the playing time so much that it's safe to say that no spot out there is set in stone. Why not bring some pop to the fold?

-P Al Reyes: 4 years, $3.4 million per year. This seems like a steal consider his 2006 season in which he had an ERA of 2.08, a WHIP of 1.21, opponent's average of .219, and 33 saves. A slight upgrade from P Brian Shouse, no?

In other news:
-Florida signs C Michael Barrett for 4-years at $6.7 million.
-Florida also signs 2B Placido Polanco to a 1 year deal worth more than $1 million.




EDIT POST FOR UPDATED LEAGUE SIGNINGS
-Philadelphia signs 2B Luis Castillo, 3 years, $3.7 million
-Arizona signs P Adam Eaton, 4 years, $5.8 million
-St. Louis gets CL Eric Gagne, 1 year, $2 million
-Indy league Sioux City Explorers nab P Jon Garland, 5 years, $200,000! Wow!
-NY Yankees get P Julien Tavarez, 3 years, $1.9 million
-Indy leaguers Camden Riversharks sign 3B Aubrey Huff, $110,000. Wow2.0!
-Philadelphia signs CF Torii Hunter, 3 years worth a total of $17 million.
-Arizona signs LF Barry Bonds, 2 years, $16 million per year.
-Florida signs LF Cliff Floyd, 4 years, $6 million per.
-Tampa Bay signs SS Miguel Tejada, 5 years, $15.86 million per year.
-Philadelphia picks up P Barry Zito, 2 years, $3.3 million.
-Indy leaguers Coastal Bend Aviators sign C Ivan Rodriguez, 4 years at around $200,000 per year. Wow!
-Indy league St. Paul Saints sign RF Trot Nixon! 5 years for a total value of $1 million.

EDIT POST FOR UPDATED RANGER SIGNINGS
-P Kyle Farnsworth comes to Arlington for 1 year, $900,000. Great ratings, not great stats, and not a great impression of him in real life....in anycase, we need bullpen and at less than one million, Farnsworth will have to do.

-3B Russell Branyan, 2 years for $5.8 million. Branyan can play at first and left, so he'll be an awesome guy to fit in where people are tired or cold. He had 29 HRs last year! Although he did bat a miserable .230. But he is another piece to this team strategy I guess I'm developing in which any given player should be able to play any given day and the team's production should be the same.

-P Curt Schilling, 3 years, $7.89 million! Our biggest signing yet! A true Hall of Fame winner! Now our pitching staff can no longer be considered a laughing stock. The biggest pitcher to hit Arlington since Nolan Ryan. Woohoo!

-P Jake Westbrook, 5 years, $9 million! Wow, stop the presses! We now have a rotation that includes Curt Schilling, Jake Westbrook, and Kevin Millwood. I'm afraid to look at our budget now, but I think we can call a halt to the free agency signings. This is a winning team, I believe. (edit...in fact we ARE a whopping $24 million over budget...okay, no more signings....)