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2000
The Rockies sign free agent P Mike Hampton to an 8-year contract worth $121 million.
That means Hampton has two years left on that contract with the Rockies. What do you mean he only went 21-28 in two seasons with Colorado, pitched three years in Atlanta and missed all of last season after Tommyb John surgery.
1992
The Braves sign free agent Cy Young Award and Gold Glove winner Greg Maddux to a 5-year contract, and then trade pitchers Charlie Leibrandt and Pat Gomez to the Rangers in exchange for 3B Jose Oliva. Leibrandt (15–7) saw his star fall in Atlanta when he gave up 11th-inning extra base hits in the 1992 World Series and the 1991 NLCS. Maddux, who turned down a $28.5 million contract extension in mid–season with the Cubs, signs for $28 million, $6 million less than the Yankees offered.
Here is a free agent signing that worked.
1965
OF Frank Robinson is traded from Cincinnati to the Orioles for pitchers Milt Pappas and Jack Baldschun and OF Dick Simpson. The Reds Bill DeWitt defends the trade by labeling Robinson "an old 30,"a concept that Robinson will quickly prove wrong.
Can't really top that comment.
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