OUT & OUTS
The Twins franchise changes hands again, as do the Phillies.
Cleveland fires Manager Mel Queen, as do the Mets with Clarence Beers and the Reds with Chuck Tanner, another skipper just one season past a title.
ROSTER MOVES
We reluctantly void Jangles Robinson's final year after he loses his 3B rating and Dave Kingman regains his at 1B. Lee lacy also loses his IF skills, but at $330k vs a $40k buyout we deem him worth keeping and exercise his. Derrell Thomas lowers his demands enough to make him viable and we re-up him for two years at $600k per to cover the void left by Lacy.
Gary Alexander is almost done but we arb him just for backup purposes because he's pretty low-cost, and UL Washington also heads for a hearing. Dave Alexander is non-tendered, while we get a bunch of payroll back with Ken Brett, Woodie Fryman, Gene Garber, Andy Hassler and Jangles soon to be off the books.
Dave Roberts, who spent the year at AAA, announces his retirement.
We don't renew 3B Jay Moore's contract and replace him with former Pirate Cesar Tovar.
SIM ACCURACY
*Ignore the SB figure, I often bump it up in the LTMs if I feel it's too low.
HANGIN' THEM UP
Just the one truly big name here and we'll cover him separately.
