Email a copy of 'Free Agent Compensation All-Star Team' to a friend
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Email a copy of 'Free Agent Compensation All-Star Team' to a friend
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aap212
Fun feature.
cseehausen
Not a bad team. Would almost certainly have a winning record in the NL.
Rich_in_NJ
As much as it stung to lose Pettitte, getting Hughes as a consolation prize was pretty sweet.
AllPraiseBeToMo
I coulda swore we got Hughes from losing Tom Gordon to the Phillies.
jdub220
Yaaaay, my team lost Adam Wainwright. But at least we got Russ Springer!
Thanks Mr. Colangelo.
aap212
No one else would have drafted Wainwright that high. Typical Georgia kid they scouted in their own backyard.
jdub220
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Yankees10
Interesting stuff, nice job Tim.
bericbnauff
I think that Brian Roberts should be your second baseman.
martinfv2
Yeah, but I’d have to change the 2000 cutoff.
Basil Ganglia
The pick Arizona used came when the Mariners signed Greg Colbrunn. Bob Melvin absolutely HAD to have Greg Colbrunn, so Gillick signed him. Melvin then forgot Colbrunn even existed, giving him about 60 PAs. For that the Mariners surrendered a first round pick.
WRT J.P. Howell, the Mariners signed Ibañez about one week before the deadline to offer arbitration. It was common knowledge that the Royals weren’t going to offer arbitration to Ibañez; Gillick simply gave away the Mariners first round pick because he didn’t want it.
It was decisions such as those that resulted in the Mariners minor leagues being so bereft of talent when Gillick quit. He saw the mess that was coming (and that he created) and got out so the implosion didn’t happen on his watch.
lostinnebraska
JP Howell, really Joba Chamberlain was drafted 41st overall by the New York Yankees in the 2006 Major League Baseball Draft; the Yankees received that draft pick as free agent compensation for Tom Gordon, who signed with the Philadelphia Phillies.