[Qeltar]

These sorts of oddities happen fairly regularly.

Yesterday I found a 3 * prospect had appeared in the FA list. This is a guy whose name I remembered because I was trying to trade for him. Baltimore wanted one of my top 5 players for him, and he wasn't worth that much so I dropped the matter.

Then for some reason they cut him. The even weirder part is that he has no pitching history in 2019 at all. In 2018 they promoted him from rookie ball through A- due to nice numbers, he had one poor outing in A ball, and that's it. They put him down in rookie ball again but it hadn't started yet. They cut him 3 days before rookie ball starts. I checked and there's no suspensions, no injuries, nothing that would explain it. So it doesn't make a lot of sense.

And even if their GM decided he no longer fit into their plans, why not put him on the trading block? Why outright release a 23-year-old 60/50/50 potential SP with 5 pitches?

The GMs also seem to mostly ignore the FA list during the season. I pick up decent guys all the time without competition and then these same GMs are willing to trade for these guys.

Building an AI for something as complex as being a GM is difficult, and I'm sure it will continue to be improved step-wise over time.