After yesterday’s big announcement out of Indy, I was expecting a bit of quietness from the league for a while, but as always, I was wrong. Signings came from all across the league, but plenty from the Florida squads.

Let’s start in Tampa where the rowdies resigned midfielder Keith Savage. The native Floridian has played for many seasons with the club making 96 appearances for the club. He also scored 12 goals over that span. Savage has played some big roles in Tampa Bay ever since returning to his home state to play for the first time since 2007. Between his time with the Central Florida Kraze and his return to the Sunshine state, Savage spent three seasons in MLS playing 46 games, mostly in Portland where he scored all three of his MLS goals. With plenty of NASL experience, Savage will play a big role I think for the Rowdies next season.

Next comes news out of Fort Lauderdale where the strikers signed Spanish footballer Dani Sánchez. Sánchez has played all over the world but never in the US, until now. Unfortunately playing mostly overseas I wasn’t able to pull up much information that I found useful, but the thirty year old midfielder has played everywhere from Australia to his native Spain and back racking up time with 8 teams in the past decade. I feel like Sánchez will play a bench role for the Strikers, maybe a few starts sprinkled in, but overall I don’t expect him to do much in 2015.

New kids on the block Armada FC kept things sunny in the sunshine state. One of their players has some NASL ties to his credit as well. Pascal Millien has signed with the Armada after spending time elsewhere. The Hatian national played for FC Tampa Bay through 2011 (before they got naming rights to the Rowdies brand) as well as spending time in the Silverbacks U23 squad in 2008. It’ll be interesting to see where he fits into the Armada lineup. He’ll get some quality minutes for sure for Armada, and he should be fresh early on after limited production in Bangladesh in 2014.

That wasn’t the only news out of Jacksonville as the Armada also signed Goalkeeper David Sierra. This signing was quite confusing. With a limited number of international signings, Sierra is likely to be on the bench most of the season behind Miguel Gallardo. Gallardo was the first signing in club history for Armada and I would expect him to get the nod over any keeper. But with a roster cap at 7 internationals, Sierra leaves just 2 open spaces for other international players. A questionable decision in my book but we’ll have to wait and see there.

And last but not least we’ll move out of Florida and focus on defending NASL Champions San Antonio. There, the Scorpions have built on their back line a little by signing Colombian Eduar Zea. 25-year-old Zea has played his entire brief career in Colombia. While the signing does help, it still doesn’t leave the scorpions with a full back line. The Scorpions only have one goalie and not much room for injury elsewhere so it’s a wait and see in San Antonio if the Scorpions can build their way back after a great season in 2015.

Overall this has been the biggest signing day recently in 2015 for the NASL, and I’m certain more are yet to come. We’ll just have to wait and see when those days come.