The First 10 days
The first 10 days of free agency had been incredibly quiet, Maybe it was collusion by the owners or maybe the player demands were just outrageous. The only deals that were done were a couple of extensions.
Parrel Signs Big Extension with WaveRiders
Owen Sound sign 1B to a 6 year $185,800,000 dollar deal to stay with the WaveRiders through the 2062 season. Parrel will make $18.45 this season in his final arbitration year. The 27-year-old has won the Canadian Player of the year 3 times (2052-2054 seasons) and certainly has cashed in.
In 4+ seasons Parrel has hit 343/401/1001 with 157 home runs, 556 RBI’s and 487 runs scored.
Chicago extends Key Reliever Larry Stott
In less exciting news the Architects have decided to buy out RP Larry Stott’s last year of free agency and extended him to a 6- year deal worth $35.4 million. Stott has been a very good RP while not having to be the closer. He is often in the setup role before closer Pat Wright is brought in. Wright is under contract with the Architects through at least the 2057 season and also has team options for 2058 and a vesting option in 2059. Clearly Stott is being considered to take over the closer role if Wright doesn’t stay under contract.
February 10th 2056
Moving forward in free agency, we have been talking with several players. One was known that we’d talk with LHSP Cliff Simpson and those talks are progressing. We are not far apart on a deal so the decision is do we want to commit 4 seasons or not. Toledo is the other known team to be in on those talks. We had offered Simpson a 4 year deal with a player option for year 3 and a team option for year 4 and a total deal worth around $41 million. He would like 4 years and $44 million with the player having the option in the final season. So not far apart at all.
We are having quiet discussing with a player who could be in our starting lineup next season. Although I will admit for being a “normal” guy his mouth is annoying the hell out of me. After agreeing to what he’s agent requested, the player got back to me to say he was insulted by our offer and he’s not sure why we even bothered to send it to his agent. I was ready to send the player a message and say really dumb&&$ your agent is the one who suggested that contract. I didn’t make that call right away as I was hot and later cooled down. Later I did call the agent and raked him over the coals and say what gives……
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Rant time. I realize trying to figure out this type of interaction is difficult for developers, but seriously……an agent says my client wants $XXX amount. A team agrees and you find that sort of smartass response from the player? In the real world the GM would spread that news like wildfire and the player would be playing Indy ball in some outpost in Montana. OOTP developers, come on be better than that!
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Tomorrow - There will likely be some movement