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The Free Agent Conundrum

 

With all of the free agent signings this offseason, from small contracts to large ones, I have been following them with curiosity to see how the so called “expert” sports writers weigh in on the signings. What I find most interesting is that there is very little consistency among the opinions on whether the signing in question will have a positive or negative impact on the ballclub.

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Free Agent Market 2006: Starting Pitching Update

With the recent signing of Barry Zito, all of the big name free agent pitchers have been taken off the market.

Here’s a list of the rest.
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A Contract That Only Makes Sense on Planet Zito

 

Barry Zito was just awarded the richest contract ever for a pitcher, 7 years/126 million with incentives that could bring the deal to $144 mil. What the hell? To me, I see Zito as a premium version of Ted Lilly and would pay him accordingly. He is not the best pitcher of all time nor even close to being the best pitcher in the game, so why is he getting this amount of coin?

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Akinori Iwamura - Tampa Bay Rays

Terms

 

 

3 Years, $7.7 Million + $4.55 Million Negotiation rights

Total: $12.25 Million, 3 years ($4.08 million per season)

BIO

 

 

I’ve already commented on Iwamura, which can be read at: Akinori Iwamura

A Quick cut & paste of a few tidbits;

• Has a career slugging percentage over .500
• Can play 2nd, SS, or 3rd
• 30+ HR in each of the last three seasons
• 27 Years old
As with any Japanese player, the jury is out on his performance.
 

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The Phil Marchildon Story 

An article today of one of the greatest stories that all of baseball and especially Canadian baseball fans should know.  This is the one of Phil Marchildon, a star with the Philadelphia A’s, a WW2 volunteer and a victim of the infamous Nazi POW Camp Stalag Luft III.

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