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Originally Posted by injury log
And the outfielder's defense matters, contracts matter, is scouting on or off, positional scarcity should matter, etc, etc.
I'm not saying things are necessarily working optimally - I'll agree immediately with anyone who says the trade AI is imperfect, but I'd also add that coding a good trading AI is an almost impossibly complicated task. There are so many factors that need to be weighed, and such a variety of possible league situations, that there will probably always be a few trades that look weird.
I'll take a look at this catcher thing though.
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Regardless of the outfielders defense. Even if he projects to be a DH, for a rebuilding team why would you deal an all-star closer and a top prospect for a fringe major league catcher?
His defense was:
Range - 7
Error - 7
Arm - 7
RF - 8
Current ratings of 5-5-5-5-3 with potential of 7-7-8-7-5. Pretty good for someone who just turned 20 3 months ago.
The closer is first time arbitration eligible in the offseason.
Scouting was off.
The 27 year old catcher is a career .234 hitter in 346 pa. He is a "real team leader" tho.