The other part of his solution was to insure the ships of grain merchants who were willing to risk travelling to Egypt in the off-season.

Milton Bradley was traded to Seattle in the off-season, and was replaced by Marlon Byrd and Xavier Nady as Lou Piniella entered his fourth season with the team.

Also during the 1955 off-season, Marguerite Norris lost an intra-family power struggle, and was forced to turn over the Wings to her younger brother Bruce, who had inherited his father's grain business.

They defeated the American League champion Cleveland Indians in the 1997 series, which was notable for shortstop Edgar Renteria driving in second baseman Craig Counsell for the series-clinching run in the eleventh inning of the seventh and deciding game and the " fire sale " which occurred in the off-season following the dramatic win.

* Hanley Ramirez ( 2006 – 2012 )-As the main piece of the Josh Beckett & Mike Lowell trade in the 2005 off-season, Ramirez was the face of the franchise during his tenure and a major offensive cog, having a 30-30 season in 2008, winning a batting title and finishing 2nd in MVP voting in 2009, and participating in three All-Star games.

During the off-season, the team signed Japanese shortstop Tsuyoshi Nishioka to fill a hole in the middle infield, re-signed Jim Thome, who was in pursuit of career home run number 600, and also re-signed Carl Pavano.

The biggest news of all during the off-season, though, was the issue of the reigning NL MVP Ryan Braun apparently testing positive for PED's and facing a possible 50-game suspension.

During the off-season, Clemente was involved in charity work.

As cattle-raiding typically was a summer activity, the invasion during this off-season was of special surprise to the invaded province.

In the off-season, Fernandez was traded to the New York Mets.

In the off-season between the 1946 and season, Williams was offered a three-year, $ 300, 000 dollar contract to play for the Mexican League, which Williams declined.

During the off-season of 1954, Williams was offered the chance to be manager of the Red Sox.

Quarterback Mark Brunell — an off-season acquisition from the Jacksonville Jaguars — struggled in his first season, and was replaced midway through the season by backup Patrick Ramsey.

The concrete lower deck extended well into left field, with the obvious intention of extending the upper deck over it, which was accomplished during the 1926 – 1927 off-season.

In the off-season, a set of rule changes was approved that made the WNBA more like the NBA.

The USFL was conceived in 1965 by New Orleans, Louisiana, businessman David Dixon, who saw a market for a football league which would play while the established National Football League was in its off-season.

Angotti left the team in the off-season and was replaced by Van Impe as team captain.

Even though the team had improved their record in his second season behind the bench, head coach Vic Stasiuk was replaced by Fred Shero in the off-season.

Cechmanek was traded to Los Angeles for a 2004 second round draft pick during the off-season despite having the second-best goals-against average in the league over his three years in Philadelphia.

Veteran defenseman Alexei Zhitnik was traded to the Atlanta Thrashers for prospect defenseman Braydon Coburn and disappointing off-season acquisition Kyle Calder was sent to the Detroit Red Wings via Chicago in exchange for defenseman Lasse Kukkonen.

During the 1960s, Clemente batted over. 300 in every year except 1968, when, thanks to yet another freak off-season injury ( à la 1965 ), he got off to the worst start of his major league career, hitting just. 245 by the All-Star break, and doing well just to reach. 291 by season's end.

Track Cycling is particularly popular in Europe, notably Belgium, France, Germany and the United Kingdom where it is often used as off-season training by road racers ( professional six-day ' Madison ' events were often entered by two-man teams comprising a leading road racer and a track specialist ).

In the off-season, the Flyers re-vamped their lineup by signing Jeremy Roenick and finally trading Lindros to the Rangers for Kim Johnsson, Jan Hlavac, Pavel Brendl, and a 2003 third-round draft pick ( Stefan Ruzicka ).

The Arizona Fall League is an off-season league owned and operated by Major League Baseball which operates during the fall in Arizona, United States, at five spring training complexes.

After being matched by the Orlando Magic for J. J. Redick they signed their third free agent from the Jazz in the off-season in shooting guard Ronnie Brewer, traded for former Warrior point guard C. J.

In the 2008 off-season, the team made a major change to its lineup, trading G Damon Jones and Smith ( who later in the season rejoined the Cavs after being released by Oklahoma City ) for point guard Mo Williams.

During the 1996 off-season, the Lakers acquired 17-year-old Kobe Bryant from the Charlotte Hornets for Vlade Divac ; Bryant was drafted 13th overall out of Lower Merion High School in Ardmore, Pennsylvania in that years draft, by Charlotte.

The Canucks made another significant move in the off-season by acquiring high-scoring Russian forward Alexander Mogilny from the Buffalo Sabres, reuniting Bure with his former CSKA Moscow and national team linemate.

After massive hype in the off-season, the Tigers had a terrible start to the 2007 season, losing their first 9 matches ( this included suffering their biggest ever defeat, at the hands of eventual premiers Geelong, by a whopping 157 points ).

The camp's buildings and cabins are available for off-season use by Scouting and other youth organizations.

These apartments are mostly owned by outsiders and remain empty during the off-season ( March – November ).

* eliminates the need for a separate rigid hardtop requiring space-consuming off-season storage and a cumbersome twice-yearly, two-person manual installation and removal – a system popularized, for example, by the Mercedes-Benz SL-Class of 1963 to 2001.

Teams thought to be good during the off-season could be out of playoff contention by mid-season ( a prime example occurring in 1999, when the 49ers and Falcons both entered the season's final MNF game with 4 – 11 records.

He made an off-season transfer to Betterton's company in the summer of 1696 and wrote part of a play for the rebels before being re-seduced by Rich by means of a fat contract ( Milhous ).

The Lynx also made some moves in the off-season by selecting Rebekkah Brunson in the Sacramento Monarchs dispersal draft, and trading their first overall pick of the 2010 WNBA Draft and Renee Montgomery to the Connecticut Sun for former Minnesota Gopher Lindsay Whalen and the second overall pick.

During the off-season, Capozzi improved the team for the 1959 season in the following ways ; first by hiring Wayne Robinson from the Winnipeg Blue Bombers to become the new head coach, then bringing in a corps of veteran players to add more experience to the team.

The acquisition of Roger Metzger from the Chicago Cubs in the off-season moved Menke to first base and Bob Watson to the outfield.

The most notable off-season acquisition would prove to be the signing of veteran Robert Horry.

With the acquisition of Matt Holliday from the Colorado Rockies in the off-season, Nomar was not granted his accustomed number 5, instead wearing number 1.

Koyie entered the Diamondbacks spring training locked in a battle with Snyder for the backup role to Johnny Estrada, a major off-season acquisition of the Diamondbacks.

The Mavericks re-invented their defensive reputation around the league during the 2010-11 campaign, mostly in part to off-season acquisition Tyson Chandler ( who was later named to the All-Defensive Second Team ).

Pierce returned to the bench for 1993 – 94 following Seattle ’ s off-season acquisition of Kendall Gill.

Later in the game, the Cowboys lost Joey Galloway, their prize off-season free agent acquisition, for the season and quarterback Troy Aikman for several games with a concussion.