[malichai11]

22 year old superstar, 80/80, put up 8.4 WAR last season and won the MVP, about to enter arbitration, is only asking for an 8 year deal worth $86m w/ 800k for MVP. He settles for an 8 year deal worth 80m with the last 2 years being team options, and no bonuses for allstar or MVP. His greed rating is 122 according to the editor. The year is 2020. Financial settings show that a Super Star Quality player typical salary is 20m.



His first year of Arbitration is worth 8.2m. For arguments sake, let's say Arb year 2 is worth 10m and Arb year 3 is worth 12m. Then years 4 through 8 of his free agency should be 20m each, or 100m. That's 120m in total. He's leaving at least $40m on the table for a player who's greed rating should have him trying to get more.

Though in free agency, a 29 year old Mike Trout is asking for $50m/year, I'll chime in with how much he signs for when I get to that part.

edit - he signed for 7 years, 24m/year.

Is this working as intended? I know I already commented about this yesterday, but that was from an OOTP19 save game so I wasn't sure if there was funky business happening there. This is a fresh, standard MLB game. It's Juan Soto, actually. Is it because he's an LF who doesn't play outstanding defense? Whereas it seems that Shohei Ohtani (by editing his age down so I was looking at apples to apples), in the exact same situation with a 1 in his greed, will only accept 20m for 8 years with the last 2 being team options and no bonuses.

It is definitely an improvement that young superstars aren't accepting 10 year contracts, yes. I'm just concerned with some player types accepting too small of yearly salaries to buy out their 3 arb years and their first 5 free agency years.