Ranking the best free-agent signings in history - Jon Heyman - SI.com

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Heyman's Best-Ever Free Agent Deals
Published 5/15/2008 by Cork Gaines at MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com
... Heyman is back at it again. This time, he has his list of the 20 best free agent signings ever. Topping the list is the 1-year/$1.25MM deal given to David Ortiz back in 2003. I am not convinced that a 1-year deal deserves to be at the top of this list. ...

Smells Like Padres in Here - Friday Edition
Published 5/16/2008 by Winfield's Ghost at Gaslamp Ball: Front Page Posts
... went to Chicago once and had a very good time.  The Padres went to Chicago and did not have a very good time. "I think Tony will get some DH at-bats," Black said. "That's why he's here."  He knows we don't get to use the DH all the time, right? Updates on Barrett and Prior.  If Prior has been consulting with Andrews since Monday, I can't imagine he's going to pitch this season.  Jon Heyman gives us the 20 best free agent signings ever.  Hey, lookie there!  The Pads are on the list. ...

Baseball Today: Monday, May 19
Published 5/19/2008 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... WELL, THAT EXPLAINS IT: We all know the Red Sox have won two World Series in the last four seasons and we all know the roles Ortiz and Manny Ramirez have played in hanging those two flags. Makes sense, then, that SI.com's Jon Heyman would rank the signings of Ortiz and Ramirez as two of the five greatest free-agent acquisitions of all time -- Ortiz at No. 1 and Ramirez No. 5. And how I wish I could somehow travel back in time and show the piece to all the folks back in December 2000 who thought the free agent the Sox should should have signed back then ...

Art Martone: Baseball Today
Published 5/19/2008 by redsock (noreply@blogger.com) at The Joy of Sox
... WELL, THAT EXPLAINS IT: We all know the Red Sox have won two World Series in the last four seasons and we all know the roles Ortiz and Manny Ramirez have played in hanging those two flags. Makes sense, then, that SI.com's Jon Heyman would rank the signings of Ortiz and Ramirez as two of the five greatest free-agent acquisitions of all time -- Ortiz at No. 1 and Ramirez No. 5. ... ...