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WPK great, Andy Wilson, coming home!
Okay, this one makes me happy.
Andy Wilson, one of the greatest superstars of the WPK thus far, now in his waning years, is coming home to his original club, the Portland Wild Things.
Wilson played for the Wild Things his first 7 years in the league and won two league MVP awards in a Wild Things uniform.
He will be 38 during the 1973 season and has become very injury prone in the past few years. Although he still has a decent bat, with his former Gold Glove winning defensive skills having now eroded to the point where he is a severe liability in the field, it is hard to see how Wilson is going to help the Wild Things, who lost 96 games last season, move up from the cellar in the standings. But at least he will bring fans into the park while they seek to rebuild.
With his skills being what they are now, the $354,000 price tag seems a bit high (this makes him currently the 7th highest paid player in the league), but in fairness to the Wild Things they did at least build in a vesting option for the second year of this two-year deal and if he doesn't get at least 550 plate appearances this coming season they will be off the hook for the $312K that he could get for 1974.
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