26-year-old overpaid veteran

Kekkonen · 06-12-2006, 05:07 AM

I'm in the off-season after the 2006 World Series in an universe with fictional players. For all of the 2006 season, my lead-off hitter against righties was a 25/6 -year-old outfielder who had 20s (in a scale of 1-20) in all of speed, stealing, and baserunning instincts. He had a contact rating of 17 vs. right-handers (and batted well over .300 vs. R), but didn't walk enough to be an excellent lead-off man, and being a left-handed hitter he had huge problems hitting lefties. He's also excellent defensively with great range and a good arm, and has an overall rating of 20 in LF and CF, 16 in RF. He is now entering the 2nd year of a 3-year contract paying him about $2.7 million a year.

Now, I'd be happy to keep him if I didn't have too many outfielders who have trouble against lefties. So, I went on a shopping spree and got myself the NL's #1 base-stealer, a switch-hitting outfielder who could hit both righties and lefties and had a good eye as well, thinking that getting rid of the guy I mentioned in the previous paragraph shouldn't be a problem.

Wrong. He seems to be untradeable. Whenever I insert him into a trade, the opposing GM starts whining about overpaid veterans. Hello? He's 26 and makes well under $3 million!

06-12-2006, 05:07 AM	#1
Kekkonen All Star Reserve Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Putting the 'in' in Finland Posts: 739	26-year-old overpaid veteran I'm in the off-season after the 2006 World Series in an universe with fictional players. For all of the 2006 season, my lead-off hitter against righties was a 25/6 -year-old outfielder who had 20s (in a scale of 1-20) in all of speed, stealing, and baserunning instincts. He had a contact rating of 17 vs. right-handers (and batted well over .300 vs. R), but didn't walk enough to be an excellent lead-off man, and being a left-handed hitter he had huge problems hitting lefties. He's also excellent defensively with great range and a good arm, and has an overall rating of 20 in LF and CF, 16 in RF. He is now entering the 2nd year of a 3-year contract paying him about $2.7 million a year. Now, I'd be happy to keep him if I didn't have too many outfielders who have trouble against lefties. So, I went on a shopping spree and got myself the NL's #1 base-stealer, a switch-hitting outfielder who could hit both righties and lefties and had a good eye as well, thinking that getting rid of the guy I mentioned in the previous paragraph shouldn't be a problem. Wrong. He seems to be untradeable. Whenever I insert him into a trade, the opposing GM starts whining about overpaid veterans. Hello? He's 26 and makes well under $3 million!