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Sven Draconian · 04-18-2007, 02:21 PM

The Off-Season

It was a relatively slow off-season transaction wise. Without any marquee players available, most team deferred away from the free agent market, allowing the new franchises in Gary and Monroe to gobble up the mid-tier talent.

Gary stole the show, giving a 5 year 170,000 contract to SP Chris Miller. Miller is 72-65 for his career with a 4.42 ERA and a 871/603 K/BB rate in 1119.2career IP. Monroe handed out 52,000 for a pair of relief pitchers in Ivan Garcia and Anthony Smith.

However, the Dayton Storm are the off-seasons winner. They made a key re-signing, keeping closer Jorge Baez who has 140 career saves and had 36 last season and trading for Pedro Gonzalez of South Bend. To acquire the OBP machine, they gave up Riley Andrews, who had just 15 Hrs and a .351career OBP. South Bend also threw in prospects. Dayton also signed Gold Glove CF Angel Reyes to a 3 year 60,000 and has a .342career OBP, 276 steals and 126HRs. Reyes does carry the label of “injury prone”.

The Kankakee Kings also took advantage of South Bend, getting 29 year old former “Outstanding Batter” and last season RBI leader Victor Joseph. Joseph has a .400 career OB, 229career HR, and Kankakee only had to give up prospects.

04-18-2007, 02:21 PM	#18
Sven Draconian Major Leagues Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 432	The FWL Weekly: March 1st 1901 The Off-Season It was a relatively slow off-season transaction wise. Without any marquee players available, most team deferred away from the free agent market, allowing the new franchises in Gary and Monroe to gobble up the mid-tier talent. Gary stole the show, giving a 5 year 170,000 contract to SP Chris Miller. Miller is 72-65 for his career with a 4.42 ERA and a 871/603 K/BB rate in 1119.2career IP. Monroe handed out 52,000 for a pair of relief pitchers in Ivan Garcia and Anthony Smith. However, the Dayton Storm are the off-seasons winner. They made a key re-signing, keeping closer Jorge Baez who has 140 career saves and had 36 last season and trading for Pedro Gonzalez of South Bend. To acquire the OBP machine, they gave up Riley Andrews, who had just 15 Hrs and a .351career OBP. South Bend also threw in prospects. Dayton also signed Gold Glove CF Angel Reyes to a 3 year 60,000 and has a .342career OBP, 276 steals and 126HRs. Reyes does carry the label of “injury prone”. The Kankakee Kings also took advantage of South Bend, getting 29 year old former “Outstanding Batter” and last season RBI leader Victor Joseph. Joseph has a .400 career OB, 229career HR, and Kankakee only had to give up prospects.