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Questdog · 07-19-2020, 02:35 PM

Monday, February 19, 2001

Only a week to go before Spring Training starts, so I could not wait any longer for offers to come. Editor's Note: All of the trades between now and Spring Training will be of the "Shop and take a player at random variety", unless otherwise noted. I have to limit the offers to only prospects for my players that are making little to no money, because the A.I. is interested in dumping salary, offering me good players for bums through the Shop. But there is no reason to dump salary in this League, since everyone is making plenty of money and there are no free agents to spend any budget space saved on.... I suspect this is because none of the players have any history to support their salaries right now. This means, however, that we will get no offers for most of our slackers.... So far I have not seen any of these types of trades come through as regular offers, but if I do, I will reject them. For my slackers that have a salary, any players making more than double what my player is making will be excluded from the random roll. This "Shop and take a player at random" mechanism should only be used this off season to get rid of slackers. After this, there should rarely be any reason to use it.

Trade #1
RF Dave Knizner (31-R) to Rochester for RP Barry Finney (25-R)

Knizner is nothing but a slacker. Baseball America ranks 257 players in the League as prospects and they have Finney at #234.... He was the only player offered by any team and I suspect he was only offered because he has a $34,000 contract for some unknown reason.... Editor's Note: That is equivalent to $3.4 million in the current real major leagues. The quality of our relief corps, however, means that Finney goes near the top of our depth chart and is a likely candidate to make the Opening Day roster....

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07-19-2020, 02:35 PM	#9
Questdog Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: In a dark, damp cave where I'm training slugs to run the bases...... Posts: 16,142	Monday, February 19, 2001 Only a week to go before Spring Training starts, so I could not wait any longer for offers to come. Editor's Note: All of the trades between now and Spring Training will be of the "Shop and take a player at random variety", unless otherwise noted. I have to limit the offers to only prospects for my players that are making little to no money, because the A.I. is interested in dumping salary, offering me good players for bums through the Shop. But there is no reason to dump salary in this League, since everyone is making plenty of money and there are no free agents to spend any budget space saved on.... I suspect this is because none of the players have any history to support their salaries right now. This means, however, that we will get no offers for most of our slackers.... So far I have not seen any of these types of trades come through as regular offers, but if I do, I will reject them. For my slackers that have a salary, any players making more than double what my player is making will be excluded from the random roll. This "Shop and take a player at random" mechanism should only be used this off season to get rid of slackers. After this, there should rarely be any reason to use it. Trade #1 RF Dave Knizner (31-R) to Rochester for RP Barry Finney (25-R) Knizner is nothing but a slacker. Baseball America ranks 257 players in the League as prospects and they have Finney at #234.... He was the only player offered by any team and I suspect he was only offered because he has a $34,000 contract for some unknown reason.... Editor's Note: That is equivalent to $3.4 million in the current real major leagues. The quality of our relief corps, however, means that Finney goes near the top of our depth chart and is a likely candidate to make the Opening Day roster.... Last edited by Questdog; 07-19-2020 at 02:36 PM.