Opening Day. Time to look to the future. Major league teams are engaging in a marathon struggle. 7 months, 162 regular season games.
Instead of looking forward at that, I'm going to look back.
In November, the 7th of, I game myself an imaginary $100 million with which to imaginarily lure 25 players to play for my imaginary baseball team in the real year of 2013.
Here's the post and the team that I picked.
Now, the season is upon us. Al(most all)l of the contracts have been signed and the players are taking the field. In a over half of a year I'll be able to look back and see how my imaginary team fared. Before that, though, I should see how well I did at signing players.
Here's a list of the players I wanted to sign along with what I thought they'd sign for.
I don't think I did too bad. I offered a total of 25 contracts for a total of $98.7 million. 23 of those players actually signed, and for a total of $87.3 million. A few players I wanted to sign did not sign. I offered $6 million to Roy Oswalt and minor league contracts to Kevin Millwood, Jamey Moyer and Dana Eveland. Millwood retired and nobody else bit on Oswaly, Moyer or Eveland. If they had signed for what I had offered my total contracts would have to $94 million. Very close to the $98 million I projected.
My biggest misses were:
Eric Chavez. I offered 2 years and $10 million. Chavez signed for 1 year and $3 million. Pretty big overpay on my part.
My 1 year $6 million offer to Melky Cabrera wouldn't have gotten him. He took 2 years and $16 from the Blue Jays.
I broke the bank for Nick Swisher at 6 years and $102 million. He signed for about half of that. 4 years and $56 million.
My 2 year $12 million offer to Jeremy Guthrie was a bit shy. He took 3 years and $25 million from the Royals.
All-in-all, though, I think I did a good job predicting the contracts and didn't make a fool of myself over or under bidding for players.
Now I just have to wait and see how they perform.
Instead of looking forward at that, I'm going to look back.
In November, the 7th of, I game myself an imaginary $100 million with which to imaginarily lure 25 players to play for my imaginary baseball team in the real year of 2013.
Here's the post and the team that I picked.
Now, the season is upon us. Al(most all)l of the contracts have been signed and the players are taking the field. In a over half of a year I'll be able to look back and see how my imaginary team fared. Before that, though, I should see how well I did at signing players.
Here's a list of the players I wanted to sign along with what I thought they'd sign for.
I don't think I did too bad. I offered a total of 25 contracts for a total of $98.7 million. 23 of those players actually signed, and for a total of $87.3 million. A few players I wanted to sign did not sign. I offered $6 million to Roy Oswalt and minor league contracts to Kevin Millwood, Jamey Moyer and Dana Eveland. Millwood retired and nobody else bit on Oswaly, Moyer or Eveland. If they had signed for what I had offered my total contracts would have to $94 million. Very close to the $98 million I projected.
My biggest misses were:
Eric Chavez. I offered 2 years and $10 million. Chavez signed for 1 year and $3 million. Pretty big overpay on my part.
My 1 year $6 million offer to Melky Cabrera wouldn't have gotten him. He took 2 years and $16 from the Blue Jays.
I broke the bank for Nick Swisher at 6 years and $102 million. He signed for about half of that. 4 years and $56 million.
My 2 year $12 million offer to Jeremy Guthrie was a bit shy. He took 3 years and $25 million from the Royals.
All-in-all, though, I think I did a good job predicting the contracts and didn't make a fool of myself over or under bidding for players.
Now I just have to wait and see how they perform.
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