OK, here's the plan. I'm willing to remake your entire team for you. I'll deal these players:
Starting Pitcher Billy Lowry (3 stars!)
Starting Pitcher Joseph Silas (4.5 stars!)
Shortstop Juan Favela (4 stars!)
Starting Pitcher Christian Diaz (3 stars!)
Catcher Broderick Hooker (4 stars!)
Third Baseman Constantino Martinez (3.5 stars!)
Right Fielder Manuel Abalo (3 stars!)
And a slew of useful pieces of the puzzle.
What I want: a combination of 4 star plus prospects or first and second round picks for combinations of the above. Contact me! You know you want to!
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Wow. If there is someone who can pick up the nearly $60,000,000 in payroll, they would be a good team.
Well, they'd need $60 million plus enough prospects and picks to satisfy Nate.
Otherwise, yeah. That would be pretty good.
Hey, they're for sale as a unit at a discount or piecemeal.
Your pick. But that's enough to push someone over the edge, right there, that is.
I'm just teasing. It definitely can be a big opportunity, depending as always on the price.
At a minimum, Nate, you managed to inspire Mike to post at the blog. Now that's saying something!
So let me get this straight -- I outbid you for Favela, you get him anyway, and now I can give up a slew of prospects and picks to get him and some other grumpy old men, plus take on the exorbidant salaries?
Count me in!
All this to catch up to my aging team. Good Luck everyone.
I also like all the exclamation points after the star rankings of all the players. Makes their ratings really pop!
Signing free agents (Silas, etc.) just to trade them? You're lucky none of those guys were Scott Boras clients; he would have required a no-trade clause...
And they can in OOTP9. That's the beauty of this last 6.5 free agency period.
And this is also why I wish OOTP 9 would include compensation picks for lost free agents (and lost picks for signing FAs).
OOTP 9 does include compensation for lost free agents. At least, that's what the game manual says. We'll see for ourselves in several months when we get to the 2005-06 offseason.
Are we going to do that option? I'm not opposed to it but it's complicated.
I think it would be a cool option to put in there. In the Major Leagues I believe it has to do if you offer arbitration to the player if you would get the compensation pick. Is that how it would work in the game?
I don't want to create a bunch of work for you guys, but I'm really interested in utilizing that option if it's not too cumbersome.
The default in OOTP 9 is to have draft pick compensation for lost free agents. The game does it automatically, so I don't see why it's an issue to adopt.
As I understand the system, it's a vastly simplified version of MLB rules. No need to tender offers. See here for a description.
I honestly don't see why we wouldn't activate this, but I'm certainly open to discussion.
Having reviewed the rules I thoroughly approve. It's NOT as complicated as the major league draft compensation system but it looks worth doing. I say we do it.
I noticed this option in OOTP 9 the other day, and I brought the subject up with Zev in the SDMB league. He suggested I bring it up in the other blog, but I haven't yet. I have a feeling it will get a lot of support.
Oh, and I would support doing so here.
Does anyone know the procedure if a team signs multiple Type A free agents? Will they lose just one first round pick, or how does that work?
(Same in MLB, too, I wonder. I'm disappointed in myself for not knowing this answer.)
In MLB, they will lose multiple draft picks. The team who lost the "best player" in the rating system gets the first round pick. The team who lost the next best player gets the second round pick, etc.
I don't know how it works in OOTP9.
I feel compelled to reply just to get us to 20 comments. 19 just seems wrong.
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