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Originally Posted by Desolate
I started a Marlins save today and became curious as to what other people do with their teams.
As soon as you enter the save, do you make a ton of trades and carve the team to your liking before day 1?
Do you wait until someone over performs and then flip them for higher quality than normal specs?
Do you take a more realistic approach and do it gradually through the season?
Do you wait till the trade deadline?
I usually start a rebuild telling myself I’m going to do it “realistically” and then after about 1-2 hours I just decided to blow up the team and start the huge amount of trades.
I really want to see what you guys have to say. Not only just to cure my curiosity, but may to take or give advice as well!
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I think it's better, and also more realistic to take a slower approach. I'm doing it right now with the Rockies, who had a mediocre team, so bad contracts and a TERRIBLE farm system. Oh and it's impossible to pitch at Coors. So I like the challenge.
I went into with an organizational philosophy in mind. I want to build my minor league coaching staff around the type of players I'm going to draft (Eye/Contact guys that hopefully can develop some power as they advance, groundball and power pitchers as well) and draft/target players that may meet those needs. But it's not going to happen overnight. I always like to try and get my contracts in order, start getting out bad money and seeing if there are guys that aren't in my long term plans, when is the best time to get value for them.
I could go way more in depth, but take your time. Rome wasn't built in one day.