Anyone else seen this happen?

[OBSL Commish]

So, I'm in the offseason in my MLB/fictional game and international free agents have just been created. I see a young reliever from Cuba named Ernesto Salcido who looks promising and I go to make him an offer. He wants a minor league contract with a bonus of $270,000 so I'm thinking done deal. I match his offer and he comes back to me in a couple of days saying Arizona has made him a better offer. I look and he now wants a minor league deal with a bonus of $360,000. No problem, I match his offer and sim a couple more days. Then I get this message:



Really? An extension?!? Something seemed off so I open up his player profile:



Looks like he wants $410,000 now with a minor league deal. Okay, still not a problem. So I click on "Offer Contract" and this deal breaker comes up:



I realize other teams may be after this guy. He looks promising. But it seems like a really drastic jump to go from a minor league contract with a $410,000 bonus to a three year major league deal at almost $15 million per. Is there anywhere I can see what teams have made offers to him?

[ra7c7er]

I've seen it before.

I think the game goes by lowest offer first and you're competing with that. Kind of like going up the rungs on a ladder. The Yankees obviously think he's a starter or something.

[OBSL Commish]

Yeah I get that. But to suddenly go from a minor league deal to that huge offer seems a bit off. That's why I was hoping to see what all the other offers were that led up to that and see why his player profile didn't mention that he wanted a major league deal.

[Fyrestorm3]

Originally Posted by OBSL Commish

Yeah I get that. But to suddenly go from a minor league deal to that huge offer seems a bit off. That's why I was hoping to see what all the other offers were that led up to that and see why his player profile didn't mention that he wanted a major league deal.

I don't think he WANTED a Major League deal, that's just what the Yankees offered him, and now you'd have to beat it to sign him. The issue I see here is a team paying over $10M a year for a 2.5-star reliever who hasn't played in the league before. Something seems drastically off with the AI evaluation there.

[Number4]

Those are the Yankees, in this case it isn't a bug

[OBSL Commish]

Originally Posted by Fyrestorm3

Something seems drastically off with the AI evaluation there.

Yeah that's what I was thinking too.

[Lukas Berger]

Originally Posted by Fyrestorm3

Something seems drastically off with the AI evaluation there.

Originally Posted by OBSL Commish

Yeah that's what I was thinking too.

I wouldn't necessarily assume the ai is off.

The Yankees probably just have a different, more optimistic, scouting report than you do and thus value him more highly.

He also has the stamina to easily be a starter, so if they see him as a starter they'll value him more highly.

[OBSL Commish]

Originally Posted by lukasberger

I wouldn't necessarily assume the ai is off.

The Yankees probably just have a different, more optimistic, scouting report than you do and thus value him more highly.

He also has the stamina to easily be a starter, so if they see him as a starter they'll value him more highly.

That makes sense to a point. But why would they offer him such a high dollar contract when all he wanted was a minor league deal with a six figure bonus? I understand it's the Yankees and they have deep pockets, but if I was the Yankees' owner and I saw the player's demands and then saw what his team offered him, I would seriously consider having Brian Cashman committed to a sanitarium. UNLESS there were other offers that had been made beforehand that had seriously escalated the bidding for him. Which is why I was offering if I could see what other teams had offered him or if that could be coded in?

[Lukas Berger]

Originally Posted by OBSL Commish

That makes sense to a point. But why would they offer him such a high dollar contract when all he wanted was a minor league deal with a six figure bonus? I understand it's the Yankees and they have deep pockets, but if I was the Yankees' owner and I saw the player's demands and then saw what his team offered him, I would seriously consider having Brian Cashman committed to a sanitarium. UNLESS there were other offers that had been made beforehand that had seriously escalated the bidding for him. Which is why I was offering if I could see what other teams had offered him or if that could be coded in?

Good point.

Yeah, I dunno, logically I'd think there must've been other offers. But I don't know any way to actually find out if there were or not.

[OBSL Commish]

Originally Posted by lukasberger

Good point.

Yeah, I dunno, logically I'd think there must've been other offers. But I don't know any way to actually find out if there were or not.

Okay thanks. Well then, consider this my official request for that to be coded in.