This chart, from our friends at Beyond the Box Score, shows the remaining free agent hitters (some of whom have since been snatched up) and their Wins Above Replacement values using the CHONE projection system for both offense and defense. I know it's kind of hard to read the names, but give it a look, and bear in mind that these are the remaining hitters available for the Buccos to snatch up before (or during) spring training, which starts this Saturday.
Not surprisingly, there's a lot there, and there's very little there, all at the same time. In a perfect world, the Buccos would probably sign someone like Manny Ramirez or Adam Dunn (though I'd definitely settle for the nice bat and glove work of Orlando Hudson if they had somewhere to put him), but this is definitely not a perfect world.
Leaving out MannyBManny, everyone else on this list is basically a 2 WAR or less performer, which means at best, adding a free agent hitter would only improve the team by roughly two wins. Considering that would cost somewhere between $5-$10 million (depending on how savvy a deal Team Neal can negotiate), and there really isn't a great fit among the players on this list, I wouldn't expect the Buccos to sign any of the moderate-to-big names on this spreadsheet.
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