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Originally Posted by Orcin
It proves nothing? Unless I am reading your post incorrectly, the White Sox would make the same trade in the game as real life. I am not sure what else you want the game to do.
It is not surprising that selecting "make this work" as a one-for-one trade yielded no results. The White Sox were not interested in taking on major league players for Quintana, or one prospect for Quintana. The AI GM apparently wanted multiple players that don't need to be on the 40-man roster for Quintana and, when you offered a trade like that, he accepted it. Again, I don't see why that suggests a problem with the trade module.
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Does the trade module consider teams in dire need to fill a weakness fighting for a playoff spot or does it just look at a team's weakness? I have no idea. Yes, I was able to replicate the actual trade that took place. In hindsight I'm surprised the AI didn't ask for more.
I said it proves nothing, for me at least, because I was hoping the Cubs in my save would have a season similar to the one they're having now. Either way I still would not have made this trade if I am controlling the Cubs & looking at how Quintana is performing in the save. On paper it looks like I'm getting taken to the cleaners. As I said, prospects are nothing more than prospects but it looks like 2 of them may come back to haunt me.
Of course the AI would make a trade like this. The AI trade logic makes the trade easily for all the reasons you mentioned. I think I would end up getting the raw end of the deal either short term or long term. I say that because most times the AI is willing to accept a trade it turns out to be a disaster. For me that is.