Posted this in the regular forum, then realized this was the best place for it. Ignore if you've read it already
A cautionary tale regarding the new trade interface…
Just for the heck of it, I wanted to see what I could get for my single-A catcher James Vong, a fictional player created to fill the minors. The saga follows.
C James Vong (20 yrs, 3/4/3, 1 blue star, undrafted)
Traded to Texas for
SP Eric Good (22 yrs, 0/2/4/5, 3 ½ blue stars, 34th round pick, 1009th overall)
Traded to Montreal for
MR Blaine Neal (24 yrs, 6/7/8/5, 4 ½ blue stars, 15th round pick, 424th overall)
Traded to Chicago (N) for
MR Joe Valentine (23 yrs, 6/7/9/4, 5 blue stars, 10th round pick, 277th overall)
Traded to New York (A) for
1B Justin Morneau (21 yrs, 4/4/4, 5 blue stars, 13th round pick, 387th overall)
Traded to Tampa Bay for
3B Joe Crede (24 yrs, 5/9/1, 3 ½ gold stars, 15th round pick, 429th overall)
Traded to Montreal for
CL Billy Wagner (31 yrs, 9/8/7/6, 5 gold stars, 8th round pick, 214th overall)
Traded to Florida for
SP Bartolo Colon (29 yrs, 6/6//6/5, 3 ½ gold stars, 4th round pick, 92nd overall)
Traded to New York (A) for
CF Carlos Beltran (25 yrs, 5/6/5, 4 gold stars, 1st round pick, 27th overall)
Traded to Colorado for
RF Bobby Abreu (29 yrs, 7/6/8, 4 gold stars, 1st round pick, 18th overall)
Traded to Minnesota for
RF Sammy Sosa (34 yrs, 7/12/7, 4 ½ gold stars, 1st round pick, 30th overall)
(Using OOTP 5.10, Total Minors 1.1, and of course a fantasy draft)
Yes, I’d rather have Beltran or Abreu than Sosa, but I decided to end the chain with Sosa to get more people to read this
The new “Players that would make the deal work” window, while helpful in some ways, makes the above sort of thing too easy to do. The point is, I wish I weren’t able to do this, and I’d like to see the loophole closed somehow.
Hoping this will stir up some more discussion about the trade AI…