During the 2004 offseason, the Wings focused on keeping players they already had instead of being active on the free agent market, resigning several players before the 2004 – 05 NHL lockout canceled the season.

Nonetheless the Marlins showed promise entering the offseason as they had a rotation of Josh Beckett, Carl Pavano, Brad Penny, and A. J.

In the offseason, the Brewers would lose many of their spot players that had helped them during the season, such as Mark Kotsay, Jerry Hairston Jr., and Craig Counsell but their most notable loss was that of Prince Fielder, who would leave the team via free agency after having been a part of the Brewers organization for almost a decade.

Despite the offseason losses and controversies, the Brewers fans still looked forward to the 2012 season with great optimism, as the Brewers, by the end of February, had sold over 1. 5 million tickets, the most before the month of March.

In the offseason, Clemente experienced some tense situations while he was working as manager of the Senadores and when his father, Melchor Clemente, experienced medical problems and had to undergo surgery.

Prior to this contract agreement the Padres had offered to renew Gonzalez's contract during the offseason at $ 380, 500, only $ 500 over the league minimum for the 2007 season.

During the offseason, he signed Fred " Fuzzy " Thurston, who had been cut from three other teams but ended up becoming an All-Pro left guard for Green Bay.

He signed with the San Diego Padres in the offseason, where he had another respectable year in 1996, again finishing in the top ten in the National League ( NL ) in walks, OBP, steals and runs.

In the offseason, Colorado had two first-round picks.

In the offseason, the Bulls lost B. J. Armstrong in the expansion draft, but Krause pulled off a masterful deal by trading Will Perdue to the San Antonio Spurs for the aggressive and often controversial rebounding specialist Dennis Rodman, who had won the past four rebounding titles, and who had also been a member of the Detroit Pistons ' " Bad Boys " squad that served as the Bulls ' chief nemesis in the late 1980s.

Mark Jackson joined the team in an offseason trade with the Los Angeles Clippers, giving the team a steady hand at the point guard position that had been lacking in recent years.

During the 2006 offseason, Golden State announced that it had bought out the remaining two years of head coach Mike Montgomery's contract and hired previous Golden State and former Dallas Mavericks coach Don Nelson to take over in his place.

Free, who was acquired in the offseason from the Philadelphia 76ers, finished second overall in NBA scoring average, with 28. 8 per game, while George Gervin of the San Antonio Spurs had a 29. 6 average.

During the offseason, the Lightning traded Fredrik Modin and Fredrik Norrena, to the Columbus Blue Jackets for goaltender Marc Denis, to replace John Grahame, who had served as the Lightning's goaltender throughout most of the 2005 – 06 season, as he left the team, and signed with the Carolina Hurricanes.

Many of those assists went to a new teammate: Truck Robinson, who had joined the franchise as a free agent during the offseason.

The acquisition of coveted players through the draft and free agency capped an offseason of change that had transformed a franchise for the future.

Going into the season, Thibault had assembled a deep roster that necessitated only a couple minor moves to cap the offseason process.

Now the Silver Stars had to win game 3 or face an offseason of disappointment.

During the offseason, Nicklaus addressed two problems which had hurt his performance.

Financial troubles that had stirred in the background during the middle of the previous season came to the front during the offseason, with the longtime team owners finally deciding to back out after ten years of supporting the club.

In the offseason, Chandler and Durocher had a meeting wherein Chandler counseled Durocher to abandon his gambling.

There were questions about Killebrew's health as the 1973 season began, as he had surgery twice during the offseason to fix leg problems.

Unsure of his future career path, Gibson declined, and used the motor home the Cardinals had given him as a retirement gift to travel across the western United States during the 1975 offseason.

It has been published, but never proven, that Riis had a hematocrit level of 56 % during one test in July 1995 ; well above typical natural levels, as well as his published reading of 41 % in the offseason earlier that year.

These are most commonly seen during the summer NHL and NBA offseason.

In what NFL Network's Adam Schefter ( now with ESPN ) described as " one of the wilder and more complex behind-the-scene dramas the NFL has seen in any recent offseason ," both the Detroit Lions and Tampa Bay Buccaneers proposed three-way trades to the Denver Broncos, in which they would have received Broncos quarterback Jay Cutler, the Broncos would have received Cassel, and New England would have received a first-round draft pick.

After General Manager Walt Jocketty acquired shortstop Royce Clayton during the offseason, La Russa emphasized an open competition for the spot that would give the Cardinals the best chance to win.

During the offseason, Christian La Rue was fired and quickly replaced with former London Knights assistant coach Jacques Beaulieu.

In the offseason, Russell successfully completed the U. S. Soccer Federation " A " coaching license course.

One key offseason trade between the San Diego Padres ' General Manager, Kevin Towers, and the Texas Rangers ' General Manager, Jon Daniels, would prove to have a dramatic impact on their 2006 season.

In the 2004 offseason, the League's Players ' Association and the League's administration failed to renew their collective bargaining agreement.

During the 1962 – 1963 offseason, the two remaining Triple-A leagues ( the International and Pacific Coast leagues ) absorbed the four surviving franchises from the defunct American Association.

Recent notable lockout incidents have been reported in professional sports, notably involving Major League Baseball in the 1990 offseason, the National Basketball Association in the 1995 offseason, the 1996 offseason, and the 1998 – 99 and 2011 – 12 seasons, the National Hockey League in the 1994 – 95, 2004 – 05 and 2012-13 seasons, and the National Football League in the 2011 offseason.

During the offseason of 1900, there was an effort to revive the American Association after three of the four AA teams that had been taken in by the National League in 1892, the Baltimore Orioles, the Washington Senators, and the Louisville Colonels, as well as the NL's Cleveland Spiders, were dropped by the National League.

During the college basketball offseason, Auriemma serves as an analyst for games of the Women's National Basketball Association broadcast on the American cable television networks ESPN and ESPN2, in which capacity he often critiques his former players.

After being considered for the Detroit Tigers ' managerial vacancy that offseason, Peckinpaugh took over as manager of the Kansas City Blues of the Class-AA American Association for the 1934 season.

With a new stadium on the horizon, the 2010 offseason marked a change in direction for the franchise, as they it became a buyer all over in anticipation of a higher payroll and more revenue.

Then in the offseason, Redskins majority owner Jack Kent Cooke moved from Los Angeles to Virginia and took over the team's day-by-day operations from Edward Bennett Williams.

Brind ' Amour retired over the 2010 offseason to take a coaching job with the club.

He also played in the Puerto Rican Professional Baseball League ( LBPPR ) over the offseason.

The offseason saw the addition of former NFL MVP QB Brian Sipe to take over as triggerman of Coach Lindy Infante's high octane passing scheme as well as former Heisman trophy winning HB Mike Rozier.

To make sure he stayed out of trouble during the offseason, Browns owner Robert Hedges hired him as a hunter over the winters of 1908 and 1909.

Cabrera's postseason play helped propel Florida to a World Series championship over the Yankees and also landed him on the cover of ESPN The Magazine during the offseason.

In a 2006 interview for WWE, Verne's son Greg Gagne mentioned that wrestling was a much better paying job at the time than playing football ( as recent as the 1970s, it was not uncommon for NFL players to have a second job during the NFL offseason to help make ends meet ), and as a result Verne chose wrestling over football.

( Which made him miss the exhibition race in Japan ) After an offseason surgery, Jarrett returned in 1999 and took the points lead after his first win of the season at the Pontiac Excitement 400, and held it for the rest of the season, when he won his first career Winston Cup title by 201 points over Bobby Labonte.

In the offseason, Hoffman expressed interest in taking over the closer role for a team near his home in San Diego, but he did not wish to return as a setup pitcher and diminish his accomplishments.

He was dogged by further off-field controversy over the 2010 / 11 offseason, and was officially sacked by the club on 20 February 2011.

In the wake of the lockout which took away much of the 2011 NBA offseason and shortened the league's schedule considerably, the Warriors made a push to acquire restricted free agent DeAndre Jordan, who would have automatically taken over as the starting center for Golden State.

An unrestricted free agent in the 2009 offseason, Nugent signed a one-year contract with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on March 4 and won the job over Matt Bryant in the preseason due to Bryant's injury.

In 2000 he started every game again, taking over center duties when Chris Dalman suffered a career-ending neck injury in offseason training camp.

* Boras and his firm negotiated roughly $ 444. 5 million in contracts during the 2010-2011 offseason, over $ 120 million more than any other firm.

At the beginning of the 2004 offseason, Sharper left the team over contract issues, eventually signing with the Minnesota Vikings and having another Pro Bowl season for 2005.

After a trade in the 2007 offseason to the Boston Celtics, he was a core player in the Celtics ' first NBA title in over 20 years.

But during the offseason, Breadon traded Hornsby to the New York Giants, the result of a heated confrontation between owner and playing-manager in September 1926 over the playing of exhibition games during a pennant race.

Firman trialled with the Penrith Panthers over the 2006 offseason after gaining an early release from the North Queensland Cowboys, he was finally awarded a fulltime contract to play with the Panthers for the 2007 NRL season after the club's second trial match against the Gold Coast Titans on March 3.