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I started playing the 2014 season, and wanted to try shopping a player Paul Maholm - Dodgers current salary $2.25M (rated 1.5 stars overall & potential). When the 'Shop a Player' possible trades came up, they were all just salary dumps from other teams.

What is so frustrating is that since the salaries in OOTP 19 are not matching real life salaries, it makes the 'Shop a Player' feature completely unrealistic. Here are some of the players that were offered in a 1 to 1 trade of Paul Maholm for another player - I listed their OOTP 19 2014 contract terms and their actual contracts in 2014:
Paul Maholm OOTP $2.25M for 1 yr; actual $1.5M for 1 yr;
Robinson Cano 4 stars OOTP $355M for 6yrs; actual $96M for 4 years
Fernando Rodney 3.5 stars OOTP $42M for 2 yrs; actual $14M for 2 yrs
Adam Wainwright 4 stars OOTP $275M for 5 yrs; actual 97.5M for 5 yrs

and here are a few more salaries that I grabbed from the Mariners & Cards:
Felix Hernandez 4.5 stars OOTP $432.5M for 7 yrs; actual $175M for 7 yrs
Yadier Molina 4 stars OOTP $47M for 1 yr; actual 75M for 5 yrs

Since I'm playing as the Dodgers, I can make these crazy one-sided trades, but it just feels like I'm gaming the system if I do that. What do others think about actually accepting these made-up salaries???


I know that I can manually update the salaries, but updating all MLB teams would take me literally all season just to do that.