Shots fired.

DaveB wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 25, 2024 3:14 pm

I’ll be interested into seeing if Sammy’s recent injury history scares teams off.

He's young enough, and the position is scarce enough that it shouldn't. But you never know.

Please send the following players to a motivational gym session to improve their work ethic:

OF Marty Barnett (AA) - 30 PPT (assuming it goes that far!)
SP Yi-da Joo (AA) - 48 PPT (assuming it goes that far!)

It's probably Sammy or Lowry. I don't think Parreno is in their zip code.

Considered Wullenweber and Smith, but I figure Wullenweber is too borderlinish, and Smith is a corner and older. Fountain is still only 37, so he's got more room to work with.

I'm purely guessing folks will be cautious?

https://www.typosphere.com/graphics/DAILY-KRILL.jpg Second Baseman Makes His Mark November 7, 2058: Forever Land – Napolean Mellott fully admits his glovework could use an additional bit of work. “I’m kind of a hatchet out there, but I try to make it up with the bat,” he said via a VR interview ses...

Depends on the point!

So we come to the last of this little series of missives, the one in which we discuss players for whom the axe fell, and whom their teams cut them to the wind. Theoretically these are players who GMs thought were over-paid, or at least no longer in their team’s plan going forward. By definition thes...

Hard to get too upset at paying Hines $6.9M, though he's been on again, off again for awhile and seems to be to an "off" again year.

Trebro wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 25, 2024 12:44 pm

I seem to have bad luck guessing which older player will stay good, no matter how much I pour over their year to year stats changes.

That's an arena where you should probably focus more on ratings than stats, IMHO.

There were a grand total of 29 cases of a BBA team executing their team options on players. In general the theory behind these is that the GM thinks the player has value greater than (or at least equal to) the player’s existing contract. Theoretically this goes directly to on-field performance, but ...

While there is no such thing as a Mutual Option in OOTP, entering the off-season three players carried contracts with what I will always call "mutual options." Meaning the contract called for both a player opt-out and a team option. I find these interesting because in the right place it gives flexib...

https://www.typosphere.com/graphics/DAILY-KRILL.jpg Nebraska Gains Hollow Victory November 15, 2058: Forever Land – After dancing around the idea of signing contract extensions with the team, both Samuel Nebraska and Michael Buckley had their arbitration hearings today, Buckley “lost” and Nebraska ...

We're in that era, yes. But we'll see what happens now. It hasn't always been that way.

First thing I’ll say is while those four guys who opted out and then re-signed got more guaranteed money out of their new deal they all had player options on their original contracts that gave them a lot more flexibility. I’d argue every player except Clayton hurt themselves by opting out. I agree ...

Personally, I find players who chose to opt out of contracts to be the most interesting when it comes to assessing how good or bad the game is at making these decisions. That’s because the assessment hinges on both the decision to leave, and then how much the player asks for. This log is probably go...

I’ve chosen this gathering because whether the situation is one of an opt-out or a player option at the back end of the contract, it’s a situation that leaves all the power in the hands of the player. And in this case, every one of these players had an option to stay, and decided to enact it (I’ll d...

I figured that with the pre-season happening in v25, it was time to focus on how the game is processing options. By this, I mean player options (both opt-ins and true options). So I started gathering up some data. Then I figured that before laying down player option data I should be a bit more compr...

Rockville traded Danny Leach to Boise last year, and retained 50%. Leach had a TO for this year, that Boise executed. This means Boise should be paying the entire amount of his contract. However, it appears that the game has Rockville still paying 50%. Can this be corrected?