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Originally Posted by Lukas Berger
Right, because the Red Sox never traded Babe Ruth in his prime for a bunch of washed quad A players.
Real teams make bad trades when trading with each other. The AI should also make bad trades when trading with itself.
The idea that the AI should somehow be far, far better than real, live human GM's, with all the countless terrible trades they've made, and never do anything questionable is just kind of hard for me to get a grip on.
I don't say anyone's wrong to think that, but just speaking personally, it bothers me to see this happen in real-life far more than it does in a game, which is just mimicking real-life, for both better and worse.
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While the underlying argument here does not even merit a rebuttal, even the Categorical Bad Trade of baseball history it cites is misrepresented. Everyone knows that there were extra-baseball considerations behind that trade. The consideration received for Ruth was not a bunch of Quad-A players, but $100-125k and a 300,000 owner-to-owner loan.