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Originally Posted by wallewalls
Jeez, I really hope the AI wouldn't trade league-minimum and solid Oswaldo Cabrera for David Bote and his actual salary.
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The Yankees trade AI really hates Cabrera for whatever reason this year.
On the hardest trade difficulty setting, I was able to send Madbum's dried up husk to the Yankees retaining only 60% for Cabrera. No attached prospects on my part, just one for one. My guess would be that Mike Hazen might just rip his shoulder clean off fist pumping the air if the same deal was offered IRL.
To be honest, Cabrera was below replacement for me in 2023, but Madbum was just brutal, finishing the season with an ERA of 7.00 + in the pen.
I was able to save a few million while getting a useful utility player. The Yankees have a lot of options in the infield and in three seperate sims now, they keep Volpe up in the bigs on Opening Day (something the RL Yankees are unlikely to do for service time manipulation purposes), so my guess is the AI sees Cabrera as expendable and since they can't unload their other infielders without options, they just ship him out instead of optioning him down to the minors.