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Originally Posted by EKomrska15
But if I have a team shopping them to me their bargaining power is down.
Shopping a player is different than offering a player back for someone you are shopping.
I'm not going to just come out right away if you offer me Player A for one of my prospects. I'm going to begin with lower based players and that could be someone on my 40 man roster so A.) I can open up more space on my 40 man and B.) maybe gain some more financial abilities.
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I don't necessarily agree, but it's all a matter of opinion. Shopping a player around in OOTP is somewhat different than in real life because we can't tell the other teams what we're looking for.
I'll use Jesus Montero for argument's sake -- everyone knows the Yankees were willing to trade him for pitching. When the Yankees were shopping him around, they did it by contacting specific teams looking for specific returns (elite pitching -- Cliff Lee from Seattle, which fell through when Texas jumped in; Michael Pineda from Seattle, which eventually happened). At no point were the Yankees at a disadvantage because they didn't back down from their demand of a top-notch starting pitcher.
In OOTP, you're basically throwing a player on the table and asking every team who they're willing to trade for him, which means you can get all sorts of one-player offers.