148 155 Green Caesar's GeekBlog Thread Green Caesar Preparing for the GDR FAB 3/21/06, 12:27pm (Last Edited: 3/21/06, 12:29pm) &b-Day One-b& &i-(1:05 pm)-i& FAB officially starts with Jeremy Hermida put out there. His minimum salary is $0.5 million, but I have him projected to a value of $4.53 million. I decide to tender him an offer of $2.5 million for 2 years. After putting in that bid, I am told that my offer was competitive and I am rewarded with the chance to submit one more offer. I am also told that there are 3 teams in on the bidding at this time. I decide to not use my additional offer at this time. &i-(1:21 pm)-i& Vlad Guerrero is put out there … I had originally queued up a bid of $7.5 million that appears to be way too low … looks like I will miss out on Vlad. I do bump up my bid on Manny from $7 million to $8.5 million … as well as bumping up the offers of some others. &i-(1:30 pm)-i& Addicted already … Felix Hernandez comes up. I originally queued him up with a bid of $2.5 million for 2 years. I was in the ballpark, so I was allowed one final offer. I have him projected out to a value of $5.8 million, so I bumped my offer up to $5 million for 2 years … I am currently have the highest bid in on him. &i-(1:50pm)-i& My turn to offer someone up … I put forth Pujols with an original offer of $10 million for 2 years (raised after seeing what happened with Vlad earlier). D’oh! Not even close. Five teams total in the bidding and I am denied another attempt at a better offer (mens I was below 20% of the best offer). I had Pujols projected to a value of $12.98 million. This is going to get ugly … prices are going to be high on the first day. &i-(3:05pm)-i& Well, this is interesting and frustrating. Since Pujols went on the market … Santana was brought up … my bid of $10 million for 2 years was again too low to warrant an additional offer. Weeks and Torii Hunter were next on the auction block … I decided to pass on both for now. Rivera was the first closer put out there … going to hold off. Felipe Lopez was next and again, I will hold off … I think I am scarred from the Pujols/Santana slap-in-the-face. Rich Harden appeared next around 2:50pm … I had him projected for a value of $6.03 million, so I bid $5.5 million for 2 years … slap … again, too low for another additional offer. Grrrr …. now Victor Martinez comes up as the first catcher. I like him and Mauer about the same. I put in a bid of $5.5 million for 2 years and again … no good. Mother pussbucket, this is ticking me off. [Green Caesar from Roswell/GA] Replies: