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Do their demands seem high? In my league, Justin Verlander (41 years old) was a free agent and was demanding a 5-year deal worth $25M a year. He eventually signed for something like 3/$22M per. Seems to me that players in OOTP don't like taking huge paycuts, at least at first.
My typical free agency strategy is to wait until preseason (or even February) and look for bargains; many players' demands drop a lot by then and you can get some good players on cheap one-year deals.
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