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02-09-2013, 11:41 PM | #1 |
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The craziest contracts I've seen handed out
The Phillies, in the offseason following the 2016 season, just gave Evan Longoria a four-year, $151 million deal. The final year of the contract calls for more than $50 million!
I am stunned. They've actually issued more than $320 million in contracts in the past MONTH. I'm playing as the Astros and have been trading players left and right to try and stay profitable. I can't seem to keep my fan interest higher than 81, despite three straight playoff appearances (and one World Series appearance). I don't really have a point to this. I've just invested a lot of time into this dynasty, and needed to vent. Stupid Phillies. |
02-10-2013, 03:30 AM | #2 | |
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Yeah some of these contracts post 2013 are becoming ridiculous. I haven't seen on that high 50mil but I've seen plenty of 33.5 mil ones for crap players. I trade Mitch Moreland to Boston because he was wanting some outlandish salary from me and Boston in the next year ended up offering him like a 7 year deal of 33.5 mil a year. I laughed as of course just like always these high paid players DON'T produce.
I personally won't pay much higher than 20mil cap or I'll make an offer with a large amount in the last year with "team option" and of course never accept the option. As far as this Quote:
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02-10-2013, 11:49 AM | #3 | |
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Thanks for the reassurance on the stupid Phillies contracts, btw. |
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02-10-2013, 11:58 AM | #4 |
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Moving team
Also: What's the best way to move your team? Is there an easy menu option somewhere, or do you just manually edit the city, the logos, etc.. piece by piece?
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02-10-2013, 12:47 PM | #5 | |
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Edit: Oh an another thing the Rangers have that 2ft hotdog now, verrrrrrry popular I think they call it the "Heartattackwaitingtohappen" Name goes along with the dog it's 2ft long as well. Last edited by raginhood; 02-10-2013 at 12:50 PM. |
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02-10-2013, 02:49 PM | #6 |
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While that contract may seem crazy, I'd just say wait about five years and you'll be seeing similar things in real life once all the new local and national broadcasting money works its way through the MLB clubs' coffers.
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02-10-2013, 05:11 PM | #7 | |
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I bet if you look at the financials of the teams in your league you will see an excess of cash. You can lower the cash maximum so that teams have less disposable "extra" cash.
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I took over a Online League team that had finished over .500 twice in 14 seasons, it took years to fix the Fan Loyalty (unless you go into commissioner mode).
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02-10-2013, 10:46 PM | #8 |
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Also keep in mind that if you trade (or otherwise get rid of) popular players your fan interest may be going down, so that could be part of the issue as well as what TGH mentioned.
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