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Originally Posted by ThePretender
It's still like this, actually. Just tested with OOTP 17 quickstart.
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He's a 57 pot SP from the quick start.
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He's a 75 pot Cl/SP
Granted, these guys were a little "riskier", so maybe that's why they'd take it. At least Gallo wasn't taking that kind of deal, so that's good.
Unfortunately, it must be something related to my online league. One of my top specs is Imgur: The most awesome images on the Internet. He's a 49 pot, but essentially a mid rotation SP. Our commish capped the # of years we can sign a player to a max of 6, but I was able to sign him for 6 years @ 2M each. A bargain, given in this league FA is after 5 service years, not 6 like MLB. Cash is also capped @ 30M, and I'd say only 6 GMs have more than 10M cash on hand.
Another example is Imgur: The most awesome images on the Internet, a 55 pot player who has #2 or even #1 SP upside in this league, and he's already in the majors (just debuted).
So there definitely have been improvements to the quickstarts, but some league settings obviously affect it. Maybe you set it by potential? Doubtful though, since this 70 pot C ( Imgur: The most awesome images on the Internet) was able to sign a cheap deal as well (and he's in the minors and far away).
I'm not the commish so I don't know the exact settings, but there's not a lot of cash available and no incentive for players to take a deal when they're close to MLB ready (or in the majors), can be a FA after their fifth year, and would be willing to take a 6 year deal under 3M. They'd easily make 4-5M in arb alone, and players of this calibre could do 13-20M in FA. |
Remember, players will fail as well. The closer they are to their potential, the less they're willing to sign the long deals.
I mean, in the examples you gave, you list a 17 year old kid willing to sign. Obviously he would - he's probably 2-3 years away from even making the majors, so he's really not eating up any FA years in that case.
Even guys in the majors, they can get hurt, they can fail, etc... So yeah, your can't miss guys like Gallo won't sign. But even if your Nick Martinez example, a starter with a BB/9 above 3 and a K/9 hovering around 5 often won't even stick around in the majors after a few years. Gaining some security in a guaranteed deal is not necessarily a bad thing.