[jumpin_james]

Been playing OOTP for serval years and love it. I'm a small-market Twins fan and always play as them. One of the most frustrating things I've encountered in this game is the Owner's Demands.

For the last few iterations of OOTP (20-22) playing as the Twins, the owner always demanded I re-sign Nelson Cruz to a contract extension. As a small-market team, trying to extend Cruz for anything reasonable was never possible and I always "failed" in the eyes of my owner.

I was looking forward to OOTP 23 because Cruz was gone and I wouldn't have to worry about that particular owner demand. Boy...I want to go back.

Now the owner wants me to sign .170 batting average chump Gary Sanchez to an extension (even though I have Ryan Jeffers as my primary and future catcher.) He's demanding anywhere from 10-12 million per year NOW. If he starts hitting at all, I'm sure that will go up.

My point: OOTP needs to re-evalute the AI on these Owner Demands. The small-market Twins signing Gary Sanchez to an extension worth tens of millions of dollars (when we have a young player producing much better results) makes no sense and isn't based in reality.

Or, there should be an option where I, as a GM, can "talk" the owner into understanding that one of their demands makes no sense (either financially or baseball-wise.)

Anyone else deal with similarly dumb Owner Demands? Any suggestions on how to circumvent them?