Player signings with each team ZIPs release

[Brewers]

I am just wondering how the league handles signings of players when fangraphs posts each team's ZIPs? Is it just first to sign him gets him or is there a waiver period?

[Reds]

There has never been any restrictions or waiver period.

[RedSox]

First come, first served.

[Royals]

There has never been any restrictions or waiver period.

Not quite accurate. In the Pre-ZiPS days, we would suspend signings and put all players on waivers when the SIM disk was released.

[Cardinals]

It's been first come, first serve ever since we switched to the ZiPS disc in 2009. Prior to that, we could do a signing freeze with the DMB disc since all the projections came out at once. But now some are leaked through Twitter and then one team at a time through Fangraphs, or formerly through Baseball think factory. It's just pretty much impossible to do a freeze every other day, or via twitter now, so it's just first come first serve, especially since the ZiPS man is erratic with his schedule.