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Originally Posted by PSUColonel
I hate to say it, but I don' think it's all that complicated (I wish it were more challenging) Just keep an eye of players current and future salaries, and dont's spend over what's designated for Free Agents (not that you really can) or contract extensions. If you have a guy making 16 mil, the is in the last year of his deal, and you know you aren't going to sign him, well it's obvious you will have cash on hand...but then again, I play as the Phillies, so finances probably aren't as big a deal to my team.
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Well yea... playing with a large budget is a different ball of wax. When working with one of the cheaper teams in the league, I've had something as seemingly minor as losing 4 out of 6 arbitration hearings in a given offseason completely throw my free agency hopes to the wind. Now suddenly that $7-8m I hoped would be there to sign a solid middle of the rotation arm becomes $5.5m that you can't do nearly as much with. The challenge can be there when dealing with the penny pincher / economizer owners.