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jimmysthebestcop · 03-24-2019, 07:01 PM

You want to boost dev, scouting budget as much as you can. You want to trade anyone you can get any prospect for.

It doesn't matter if you call 25 players from the DSL who are 16. Just stick them on the team. You want to be able to maximize salary space.

Have to play the money game. This means looks for Rule 5 steals. All of your guys stink even if you have to put a 20 year old on the bench for a year if he is a high prospect you can trade him at end of season if he is still highly rated. It won't be your problem if he doesn't develop.

Crush the draft. This also means having lots of salary room so you can sign impossible players. If an impossible player who is highly rated draftee wants like 3 million you might have to give him like 7-10 million to sign him. Do it.

Always sign a 5 million int amateur. Then either hope he develops or instantly promote him as a 16 year old and trade him away. Who cares if he becomes a 5 star GoD in 6 years. You will have gotten a handful of solid prospect for him while he is still rated as a high end prospect. These guys can drop off and then they lose or trade value.

That extra salary room also allows you to do "3 team trades". Some team will be dumping a 1 year player veteran. He might be still solidly rated 3-5 stars. Maybe he is do 25 million this year on the last year of contract. Well if you can dump a prospect who you don't think will become something you can eat his contract. Then you turn around and shop him to that 3rd team (usually a win it now) and eat his entire 1 year contract. Typically you can get a really highly rated prospect or several.

Where ever you can gain an asset you do it. Your team is about 3-5 years away. And its all about the prospect you can get. If one of your your young guys pops and becomes highly rated (but maybe he is still 4 or 5 years away from the show )and you turn him into 3 solid prospects I would do it.

You don't want to be paying anyone while you are rebuilding. You want to use your entire budget on scouting/development and doing whatever it is to again gain assets.

I did this with Oakland in ootp 19. And my AAA, AA, A+ team basically won their championship every year once I had my pantry full. My AAA team could beat MLB teams no doubt. And my MLB was World Series contenders. So if I had injuries even 6 guys out I had the farm system to recover.

And once my farm guys started to hit 24-25 if I didn't have room for them I package them to another team maybe for one highly rated 19-21 year old. So I would keep replenishing my young guys.

Just watch what teams you do this with. You don't want them in your division where their entire infield is your guys. Or you don't want to make your top playoff competitor better either.

No matter what I did in Oakland I was never able to have high fan loyalty between seasons. Win WS fan loyalty would be 50. While another small market Pittsburgh if I won the WS fan loyalty would be 90+ to start the next season.

If you don't get high fan loyalty between seasons you can never raise ticket prices. Never increasing your budget allowing you to sign free agents or even extending your players after arbitration runs out.

In Oakland I would have to routinely dump guys on last year of arbitration for prospects. Just a big loop. I was usually able to only afford a couple double digit salary guys. Under 5 of them.

03-24-2019, 07:01 PM	#10
jimmysthebestcop Banned Join Date: Jun 2018 Posts: 1,727 Infractions: 0/2 (5)	You want to boost dev, scouting budget as much as you can. You want to trade anyone you can get any prospect for. It doesn't matter if you call 25 players from the DSL who are 16. Just stick them on the team. You want to be able to maximize salary space. Have to play the money game. This means looks for Rule 5 steals. All of your guys stink even if you have to put a 20 year old on the bench for a year if he is a high prospect you can trade him at end of season if he is still highly rated. It won't be your problem if he doesn't develop. Crush the draft. This also means having lots of salary room so you can sign impossible players. If an impossible player who is highly rated draftee wants like 3 million you might have to give him like 7-10 million to sign him. Do it. Always sign a 5 million int amateur. Then either hope he develops or instantly promote him as a 16 year old and trade him away. Who cares if he becomes a 5 star GoD in 6 years. You will have gotten a handful of solid prospect for him while he is still rated as a high end prospect. These guys can drop off and then they lose or trade value. That extra salary room also allows you to do "3 team trades". Some team will be dumping a 1 year player veteran. He might be still solidly rated 3-5 stars. Maybe he is do 25 million this year on the last year of contract. Well if you can dump a prospect who you don't think will become something you can eat his contract. Then you turn around and shop him to that 3rd team (usually a win it now) and eat his entire 1 year contract. Typically you can get a really highly rated prospect or several. Where ever you can gain an asset you do it. Your team is about 3-5 years away. And its all about the prospect you can get. If one of your your young guys pops and becomes highly rated (but maybe he is still 4 or 5 years away from the show )and you turn him into 3 solid prospects I would do it. You don't want to be paying anyone while you are rebuilding. You want to use your entire budget on scouting/development and doing whatever it is to again gain assets. I did this with Oakland in ootp 19. And my AAA, AA, A+ team basically won their championship every year once I had my pantry full. My AAA team could beat MLB teams no doubt. And my MLB was World Series contenders. So if I had injuries even 6 guys out I had the farm system to recover. And once my farm guys started to hit 24-25 if I didn't have room for them I package them to another team maybe for one highly rated 19-21 year old. So I would keep replenishing my young guys. Just watch what teams you do this with. You don't want them in your division where their entire infield is your guys. Or you don't want to make your top playoff competitor better either. No matter what I did in Oakland I was never able to have high fan loyalty between seasons. Win WS fan loyalty would be 50. While another small market Pittsburgh if I won the WS fan loyalty would be 90+ to start the next season. If you don't get high fan loyalty between seasons you can never raise ticket prices. Never increasing your budget allowing you to sign free agents or even extending your players after arbitration runs out. In Oakland I would have to routinely dump guys on last year of arbitration for prospects. Just a big loop. I was usually able to only afford a couple double digit salary guys. Under 5 of them.