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2055-2056 WBL Winter Meetings in Scania, Sweden!
- Thread starter Mr. Radpants
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TonyGin&Juice
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No, I'll probably be exploding over Kansas City around that time and you wouldn't want me to die not knowing whether or not Marcus Never Nude was going to have to shop at Aldi again would you?
So is this gonna be a 5 day sim? It is Feb 23rd in game and ST starts Feb 28th this year?
TonyGin&Juice
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Just made a pretty sweet extension offer babby.
TonyGin&Juice
Sucking off Lawn Guy Land hobos.
LoL @ that Klerk contract.
Chose a bad weekend to go outta town. You're welcome for basically every IFA you signed this season @Travis7401
I had a good IFA haul so far
Mr. Radpants
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If he sucks I'll send him to Miami.
TonyGin&Juice
Sucking off Lawn Guy Land hobos.
We're out of the dumping ground business. You can blame ol' MongoLOLloyd and his "send me something for $45M Bish" for that.
The guys that PREFERRED TRADING PARTNER Tankee sent me were exactly what I wanted in FA but couldn't find - GB pitchers on one year deals that were somewhat popular.
Mr. Radpants
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I was going to be out around 12 million until I noticed I was bidding against doh. So I decided I would never back down.
No such thing as a bad three year deal
No such thing as a bad three year deal
Lloyd Carr
Well-Known Member
I'm not giving away the best pitcher in the league for nothing. If you can't afford him, that's your problem. I don't need to get rid of him, so I won't unless I receive an offer worthwhile.
Don't come at me with that fuckshit
Mr. Radpants
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lol.
TonyGin&Juice
Sucking off Lawn Guy Land hobos.
Lloyd Carr
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How did not moving $45M help you this offseason?
Because Buffalo isn't a brokedick team yet.
I still have one of the best rotations in the league, and I proved last season that a mediocre lineup can still propel you into the playoffs. Sure, with that $45M I could have bid on some IFA, but I'd have ended up in a bidding war with travis or doh and came out with two or three dudes. Cool, I waste an entire season so I can get two dudes. Hooray?
I can still compete for a playoff spot with the team I have, and that's more important than the possibility of getting three lottery ticket IFA's. When Buffalo no longer legitimately can compete is when I'll start playing the lottery.
Lloyd Carr
Well-Known Member
Plus, I've already got that $15M IFA on Buffalo right now. RIGGER SLAYER bout to do some work this year.
TonyGin&Juice
Sucking off Lawn Guy Land hobos.
NOW YOURE TALKING HOE!!!!! BRONG DA PAIN.
Now, if you'll excuse me, please light a candle and say a prayer for me, I'm stuck on the Greyhound in the sky surrounded by fat white people heading to that hellhole FAtlanta. If I don't make it back let that wanksta @Gooksta take over sending Marcus Never Nude to the p0r house.
ZackMills
Have mercy
Hopefully in OOTP 17 the players will be smarter, will realize when a couple of assholes are upping their bids with no intention of actually signing the player, and accept the overpriced contract before the couple of assholes withdraw their offers. Carrillo took an offer from me that was actually less than my initial 1st day of FA offer (I really don't get why...my initial offer was still on the table, lol). Poor guy lost out on more than $10M from what I can tell from what he was asking for while the couple of assholes were still bidding.
@Travis7401 @NML
@Travis7401 @NML
I gave up when NML took him up over 5M AAV about three sims ago...
ZackMills
Have mercy
TonyGin&Juice
Sucking off Lawn Guy Land hobos.
If they could just fix the super fast guys that have 20 OF range I'd be happy.
Mr. Radpants
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Bushleague tactic.
Mr. Radpants
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Oh please, you have been a noted trog bat enthusiast for years on this site
Karl Hungus
Here to fix the cable
Would still like to move Gao Kung before the season starts.
At one point he wanted 3 years at $7M per season
What did you end up signing him for? I know you legit beat me on that RP. Wasn't willing to go that deep when I was in the IFA race with a bunch of players.
ZackMills
Have mercy
1 year, $3.3M. He can run and play defense, so if he can't hit well enough to start, he'll give value off the bench.
TonyGin&Juice
Sucking off Lawn Guy Land hobos.
That's a really good deal for him. People will poopoo on him but for that price that's a serious value. I signed two guys that are strictly defense (neither even has a AA bat) for about $1.5M and obviously claimed another from you when I lost out on Carrillo.
Mr. Radpants
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No one will poopoo on that contract. I will poopoo on the dummies that wasted five minutes a day bidding him up in an effort to screw over other GMs.
Yeah, I was going to use him as a left hand platoon player and 4th outfielder and thought he'd be perfect for that. I only wanted to drop about $4-5M on him per year and got priced out by @NML.
Even though I missed out on Carillo and that RP, those were just going to be luxury upgrades. I addressed the only position of NEED (backup C) for a pretty reasonable one year deal, and that left me $80M For IFA players. I ended up spending 76M on IFA, so signing Carillo or an RP probably would have cost me one of my bigger IFA players. This year was a great success, I signed my entire Top 10 list of guys I really wanted and 17/22 that I actually bid on.
SPREADSHEETS OF DOMINANCE
TonyGin&Juice
Sucking off Lawn Guy Land hobos.
Great success: no flags flying. Welcome to America.
TonyGin&Juice
Sucking off Lawn Guy Land hobos.
If you're in the hunt at the trade deadline I'll probably be selling some BP arms for cheap.
NML
Well-Known Member
Still got $10m with ur name on it
TonyGin&Juice
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TonyGin&Juice
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Fill me in on what the problem is here. I asked how long I had to wait and @Orlando told me a year of services time so I hit the magical "EXTEND CONTRACT" and that's what the player offered so I submitted it. If there's something wrong why didn't OOTP catch it?
Mr. Radpants
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Be sure to thank doh.
TonyGin&Juice
Sucking off Lawn Guy Land hobos.
So, a couple of things:
- Can we fix this issue in OOTP 17 so the Os don't have to clean up a mess that's really not a mess?
- This might be one of the dumbest WBL rules ever. Blanks and Rocky both suggested those contracts based on the game logic and they were in line with extensions signed by actual MLB guys (Longoria comes to mind, though his first contract was way team friendly). It's not my fault the system itself doesn't recognize these HAVE friendly rules.
- I don't get why this is an issue at all. Take a look at my financials and you'll see there is no one on the books that's not an ARB case or a TO in two seasons (Hammer Harris is wasted money at this point, so ignore him). These kind of extensions are perfect for teams like mine (run by morons, HAVE NOTS for LIFE) and I don't see why, especially without COMPENSATION PICKS, we should be feeder teams for the HAVES.
- If we're going to have the five year first contract extension limit we need to bring back sandwich round comp picks. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that'll dilute an already diluted draft pool but you can't have teams with $200M budgets and teams with $100M budgets all vying for the same FAs and expect parity. My only suggestion would be if we did do comp picks after the 1st round make them where you can't trade them.
- Can we fix this issue in OOTP 17 so the Os don't have to clean up a mess that's really not a mess?
- This might be one of the dumbest WBL rules ever. Blanks and Rocky both suggested those contracts based on the game logic and they were in line with extensions signed by actual MLB guys (Longoria comes to mind, though his first contract was way team friendly). It's not my fault the system itself doesn't recognize these HAVE friendly rules.
- I don't get why this is an issue at all. Take a look at my financials and you'll see there is no one on the books that's not an ARB case or a TO in two seasons (Hammer Harris is wasted money at this point, so ignore him). These kind of extensions are perfect for teams like mine (run by morons, HAVE NOTS for LIFE) and I don't see why, especially without COMPENSATION PICKS, we should be feeder teams for the HAVES.
- If we're going to have the five year first contract extension limit we need to bring back sandwich round comp picks. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that'll dilute an already diluted draft pool but you can't have teams with $200M budgets and teams with $100M budgets all vying for the same FAs and expect parity. My only suggestion would be if we did do comp picks after the 1st round make them where you can't trade them.
Someone else wrote PARAGRAPHS!
TonyGin&Juice
Sucking off Lawn Guy Land hobos.
I understood the other limitation on pre-arb deals (1 year service time and meet arb estimate each year as a minimum) due to the AI not being too savvy, but the 5 year limit always pissed me off. I think if we do the 5 year limit on 1st contracts it should be a 5 year limit on all contracts.