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Friday, October 19, 2012

Season 18 News!!

Opey Higgins
Doubleday Daily


In HBD fashion we all know what Free Agency means; this season there was a few really big names that hit the market and there was no shortage of money being thrown at them. There are four players that moved to a new destination that are worthy of talking about.

SP Felipe Roque; Roque made his big league debut in season 11 with the Philadelphia Stars and went on to play for the Stars for 7 seasons with 104 wins before the Stars let him go. Unable to re-sign him the Stars lost one of their top stars to Little Rock. Little Rock signed Roque to a 5 year 100 million dollar contract in addition to a 10 million dollar signing bonus.

3B Pedro Zuburan; Zuburan played his first 7 seasons with the Cincinnati Franchise and hit 207 Home Runs in that time frame. Now the newest member of the Chicago Whales and a huge contract to go with it. Chicago signed Zuburan to a 5 year 95 million dollar contract.

3B Quilvio Javier;  Javier a 10 season ML vet that has also played his entire career with one franchise was let go even after posting 4 All Star appearances and a NL MVP Award. Pittsburgh opted to begin a youth movement and parted ways with the talented 3B.  Huntington decided to risk it all by throwing Javier the last big contract he'll ever see; 4 year 70 million dollars with a 10 million dollar bonus. To top that off they gave him a no trade clause as well.

RF Kurt Westmoreland; Westmoreland soon to be in the top 2 or 3 career home runs was allowed to walk away from Philadelphia as well. Philly obviously didn't plan on winning this season so this was another big loss! Toronto realized that the 33 year old Slugger still had some gas in the tank and signed him to a 3 year 27.1 million dollar contract along with a 1 million dollar signing bonus.

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