2005-2006 Off-Season Signings thread

[Guest Bret Sabermetric]

old original jb wrote: the Paris of Western Pennsylvania.

Many Parisians, in fact, refer proudly to their city as "Le Pittsburgh de l'Europe."

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

]Boston reaches preliminary agreement on $6.7 million, two-year deal with Tavarez By HOWARD ULMAN, AP Sports Writer January 11, 2006 BOSTON (AP) -- Julian Tavarez and the Red Sox reached a preliminary agreement Wednesday on a $6.7 million, two-year contract as Boston added another newcomer to its rebuilt bullpen. The reliever must pass a physical for the deal to be finalized, a person familiar with the negotiations said, speaking on condition of anonymity because Boston has not yet announced the agreement. The physical is likely to take place Thursday. Tavarez, a 32-year-old right-hander, gets a $500,000 signing bonus and salaries of $3.1 million in each of the next two seasons. The agreement also includes a club option for 2008 of $3.85 million. That option would become guaranteed if Tavarez appears in a total of 125 games in the next two seasons or 65 games in 2007.

[Guest sharpie]

Good. Glad he's not coming here.

[Frayed Knot]

This signing would have been much worse than another year for Roberto or even a arbi-decided 1-year deal for Looper IMO.
And when you consider that the original rumors were for more than 2 years and for bigger money than what's stated above ...

[MFS62]

Kevin Millar to the O's:

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2289745

You knew they were going to have to do something to keep Tejada happy enough to want to stay.

Later

[Willets Point]

Bret Sabermetric wrote: ="old original jb"] the Paris of Western Pennsylvania. Many Parisians, in fact, refer proudly to their city as "Le Pittsburgh de l'Europe."

That explains why their city's landmark is giant steel erection.

[DocTee]

true MFY Jeff Nelson to St. Louis...

[seawolf17]

I don't know where this goes any more, but Vagina Boy avoids arbitration, signing a $3,000,000 deal for '06. Only Woody is left.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Vagina Boy?

[seawolf17]

Vagina Boy.

A great nickname from the ill-fated "Let's Give The Starting Rotation A Mnemonic Device" from last April.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Hmmm. I don't remember that. Nor do I understand it!

Does Zambrano actually have a vagina? That would be pretty surprising.

[MFS62]

I wonder what they would call Raffy, based on his Viagra ads.

Later

[seawolf17]

I don't remember how it started... I wish the old site were still around. We were trying to come up with a mnemonic to remember the order of the rotation, and someone suggested something ending in Vagina (for Victor) and Boy (for Benson?). Or maybe it was just that Victor was vagina. I don't remember.

[Elster88]

I'm drawing a blank.

[seawolf17]

The five-man was Pedro-Glavine-Ishii-Zambrano-Heilman, so I don't know where the "Boy" came from. All I know is that I didn't make this up.

[metirish]

You may have dreamed this seawolf, I don't ever remember anything like this on the old board..

[Guest Edgy DC]

Probably came about before Benson left the rotation or after he re-joined it.

[Gwreck]

ESPN reporting that Woodward signed a 1 year $825,000 contract. No remaining players for arbitration.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

I remember the thread that seawolf makes reference to. Someone came up with Vagina for Victor Zambrano. I would have never remembered that on my own, but I remember it now that seawolf brought it up. I can't seem to remember the pneumonics associated with Pedro or Tom Glavine either.

Can anyone else remember any of this thread? I believe Johhny D. was active in the thread at the time, but I'm not positive.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Yeah, I'm guilty of that name, but I don;t recall how it came about.

[Guest Edgy DC]

They also quietly announced they've signed Chris Woodward for something like $800,000-$850,000, closing the books on arbitration one more time.

[Elster88]

8 and a quarter according to GWreck.

[Guest Edgy DC]

There you go. That's what I get for speed-reading the Vagina Dialogues.

[Frayed Knot]

Big Hurt to Oakland acc. to espn

[Guest sharpie]

That leaves Piazza, Sosa and Palmeiro for unsigned HOF-style sluggers.

[Guest GYC]

sharpie wrote: That leaves Piazza, Sosa and Palmeiro for unsigned HOF-style sluggers.

And it looks like Piazza is close to signing with the Yankees *twitches*

[Elster88]

Is this true, or do you like just throwing random statements out there?

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

As Frayed Knot reported earlier, Frank Thomas signs with Oakland. It is reported to be for one year at $ 500,000. Incentives based on at bats and production could add another $ 2.6 million.

Seems like a pretty good signing for the A's. Thomas has been fragile, but when healthy he can produce at the plate. If he gets injured or simply can't produce, then Oakland is only out the $ 500k. Oakland only has to ante up big money if Thomas can remain healthy and productive. Seems like a low cost deal with a potentially big upside.

[Guest GYC]

Elster88 wrote: Is this true, or do you like just throwing random statements out there?

That is what the rumors were late afternoon. And, according to http://www.nypost.com/sports/yankees/62304.htm that article, he offered the Yanks $2M to play, but they turned him down.

So no, I don't go throwing random statements out there.

[Elster88]

My bad, I thought you had something besides the Post article. I don't give much credence to that article. (Elitist question: Proper usage of credence?)