OUT & OUTS
Time for another expansion with the Rockies and Marlins joining the fray. That of course means another Expansion Draft, which I shall cover separately in due course.
The Oakland franchise has new ownership.
Bob Friend at the Giants is the only Manager axed with a number of GMs also losing their jobs.
ROSTER MOVES
We void the option year of both Danny Darwin and Joe Orsulak. We'll be looking at trying to have (for us) a fair crack at the FA or trade market this offseason and we need the $$.
Just RP Joe Boever and Mike Dyer off to arb.
Danny Jackson (who we'd like to have kept but he wants $2m per vs the $250k we were paying him for '92), Don Robinson, Neal Heaton, Ken Oberkfell and Junior Ortiz all walk.
The following extensions of note were signed elsewhere:
P Steve Avery (Yankees) 4/16400
OF Mark Whiten (Brewers) 4/8640
P Kevin Tapani (Brewers) 3/11520
OF Larry Walker (Braves) 8/36020
SIM ACCURACY
*From here on in I'll provide the in-game comparison as well as my own with the edited LTMs.
HANGIN' THEM UP
Little HoF hope for any of this year's retirees, I'm afraid. baffled as to why Juan Samuel exits so prematurely vs 1998 IRL but there you go.
