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Free agency doesn't offer too much excitement, but we did pick up a player in the Rule-5 draft who actually looks somewhat good.
Left-handed hitting 3B Matt Harris is 27, but hasn't been in the majors yet. The hit/power/eye tools are all there according to our scout. He's probably more of a 1B, but the 50-rated player could be a good addition to our lineup. This does, however, remove our one transaction allowance, and now we have 0 trades allowed this year. I'm okay with this, as most of our guys are young and I don't foresee them having much trade value anyway.
We offer a bunch of guys minor league deals with options, essentially a non-roster invite to spring training. We'll choose the rest of our 26-man roster from this band of misfits, but before we do that, January marks the beginning of the International FA period.
We have a little over $7.8M in our pool, with two players that our scout really loves, one hitter, a CF who can really play defense, and a LHP starting pitcher who's got everything you'd want to see. Our scout has built strong relationships with them over the winter, but we miss out on both, and then on our next target. We switch gears and go for quantity, adding ten rather awful teenagers into our international complex.
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