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Speaking of interesting FA situations..
It's now March 9 in my game and Andrew Miller is still in his street clothes. What's odd is how it unfolded.
He wanted a 4 year deal for, I think, originally around 11m a year. Nobody would bite. Kept dropping his price, no takers. At all.
ST starts, so I guess he says "screw it" and just asks for 7.5m for one year. Suddenly it's like a feeding frenzy. A bunch of teams have now bid him up to 17m for one year, and he still hasn't signed.
I'm actually very impressed at a lot of the GM AI in this game. It's not easy to do and they've mostly done a pretty spiffy job with it. I was amazed that every GM had the same basic reaction to his wanting a long-term deal: "not spending that kind of money on a multi-year deal for a 33-year-old reliever, no matter how good he is." I'm sure the draft pick situation played into it too.
Right now they seem to have lost perspective, but that happens in the real world too.
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