To my surprise, the owner suddenly increased our budget from $6,000,000 to $9,500,000 after ‘seeing how the off-season has gone’. It’s cool to have some money available again … but its come so late I’m not sure where to spend it. There aren’t any FA’s left that do anything for us, nor do we have any contracts expiring this year that matter much. Maybe I can get an extension to someone with a couple of years of control left to try to reduce their price and keep them around, but OOTP tends not to allow for much of that. C Butch Wynegar still has 3 years left, so is almost guaranteed not to sign anything. RF Joel Youngblood only has 2 years left, so might sign something, but I’m not sure I really want to extend him now. 1B/CF Lee Mazzillli also only has two years left, and I’m more inclined to try with him. Ozzie Smith still has another 4 years of control, so nothing going there. Who knows, maybe something will pop up later.