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Old 10-26-2012, 12:07 PM   #20
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Originally Posted by JMDurron View Post
I've read that as well, but I haven't seen the phenomenon either in my 5+ years of an OOTP12 MLB Quickstart, or in 1 year from my OOTP13 league. Frankly, I discount that objection a bit, since I think fans/pundits in real world 1980 would have called real world MLB contracts in 2000 completely outrageous too, so I'm not sure it's an unrealistic effect. I think there are some people who want to freeze the status quo salary structure while having leagues evolve otherwise without really considering that salaries trend upwards over time anyway, and that it only takes one dumb GM to ruin things for everybody else.
I agree. You'll have to check back and update me on how salaries start to trend in future years.
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