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Old 12-20-2008, 10:28 AM   #24
Curtis
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Originally Posted by injury log View Post
Suggestion

Add an 'offer extension to all staff' button, like the one on the free agent page for minor league free agents.

Reason

Playing with coaches can be pretty tedious if you have a deep minor league system. Hiring coaches, and offering them contracts, is dull. I don't know about other players, but I'm happy to meet the contract demands of my coaches -- the negotiations are over such small sums of money that they aren't worth spending time on. If there was a button that automatically offered every coach with an expiring contract the precise salary they were demanding, playing with coaches on would be more palatable.
This is a good suggestion, but as the game functions now it probably wouldn't work as Injury Log intended. To make it work:

Suggestion: When you are trying to sign any player or personnel to an extension, if you meet their demands, they should sign with you.

Reason: Just makes sense to me.

I had a little experience with coaching annoyance recently when I began a new MLB quickstart. I fired a bunch of personnel, hired a bunch and moved a bunch around. I then offered extensions to twenty of the 27 personnel. In each case I met their demands exactly. I received telegrams from seven of them saying I had come up short. (I only got acceptance telegrams from two of the rest, so I thought the other eleven were still mulling it over, but when I checked their profiles they had all accepted.)

I can understand getting in a bidding war over free agents, but when you meet the demands of someone who's already under contract, they should simply sign.

Priority: Low, but if you don't incorporate this it would be useless to incorporate Injury Log's suggestion.
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