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ajalves wrote: but draft pick trading killed things back in the day and we still feel the ripple effects of this

How? That was decades ago game time

DRWebs wrote:Either demands are ridiculously low again or the Cuevas rule has been the worst thing to happen to the league in 20 or so seasons... Virtually every top young player is signed to below market deals and will never hit free agency. Hard to see how this one has turned out well for the whole of the league

I'm sure it worked out well for some people.

ajalves wrote:

TheGobOne wrote:

DRWebs wrote:Either demands are ridiculously low again or the Cuevas rule has been the worst thing to happen to the league in 20 or so seasons... Virtually every top young player is signed to below market deals and will never hit free agency. Hard to see how this one has turned out well for the whole of the league

*cough* 5 Year Max *cough* - 10 yrs is insane and no 24/25 in real life would ever sign something like that.

didn't Acuna just sign a pretty team friendly deal?

this is a fantastic league, sure it has flaws, but draft pick trading killed things back in the day and we still feel the ripple effects of this

Albies got shredded

Cnasty wrote:

ajalves wrote: but draft pick trading killed things back in the day and we still feel the ripple effects of this

How? That was decades ago game time

i'd argue some teams got bent over more than others and it took years for some to recover from the power shift, while some never will recover

if i took it a step further, the bigger mistake might have been to only do it for one year (or two, whatever it was)...if we were going to do it, then we should have just been that league that trades draft picks IMO

ajalves wrote:while some never will recover

It was like 40+ seasons ago with mostly new owners.

Essentially 3-4 generations of players, I don't think anyone is feeling any effects from something that long ago. Even the hardest hit team has had 4 decades to figure it out. If they haven't, it's just a bad owner more so than not being able to get over draft pick trading.

I just realized that Walt Johnson is #69, I love him even more.

shel311 wrote:

ajalves wrote:while some never will recover

It was like 40+ seasons ago with mostly new owners.

Essentially 3-4 generations of players, I don't think anyone is feeling any effects from something that long ago. Even the hardest hit team has had 4 decades to figure it out. If they haven't, it's just a bad owner more so than not being able to get over draft pick trading.

fair enough.

nick wrote:Ya you're pulling a Bigry. Hype your boys up dont put them down.

How'd I get roped into this. Whenever I hype someone up they get injured.

DRWebs wrote:Either demands are ridiculously low again or the Cuevas rule has been the worst thing to happen to the league in 20 or so seasons... Virtually every top young player is signed to below market deals and will never hit free agency. Hard to see how this one has turned out well for the whole of the league

Had this rule changed happened a few seasons back, you would have never gotten the chance to sign Mens.

Not gonna lie, but these contracts are getting out of hand in my opinion. We need to make a max contract length, or have a set MLB service time before guys can get locked up, again this is just my opinion.

Who signed this sim to get everyone ticked bout this? Sure it wasn't just Claudio Marquis

D91 wrote:Not gonna lie, but these contracts are getting out of hand in my opinion. We need to make a max contract length, or have a set MLB service time before guys can get locked up, again this is just my opinion.

We just passed a rule on this.

Aaaaanyways, let’s go Minutemen and please let me wake up with a .5 lead on the AL Beast after too many beers on a Thursday night.


#bostonstrong

Cnasty wrote:

D91 wrote:Not gonna lie, but these contracts are getting out of hand in my opinion. We need to make a max contract length, or have a set MLB service time before guys can get locked up, again this is just my opinion.

We just passed a rule on this.

Aaaaanyways, let’s go Minutemen and please let me wake up with a .5 lead on the AL Beast after too many beers on a Thursday night.


#bostonstrong

This whole AL Beast is getting old. It's. Never been a beast of a division. It's been a great one team dibision

we all need to get off George's lawn

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When Omaha comes up short of the playoffs he should blame Ted for this atrocious sim for George. Washington gets swept at home by Philly and then goes to Omaha and sweeps them. That likely makes this too much to overcome without a 7-0 type sim for Omaha

wdoupis wrote:When Omaha comes up short of the playoffs he should blame Ted for this atrocious sim for George. Washington gets swept at home by Philly and then goes to Omaha and sweeps them. That likely makes this too much to overcome without a 7-0 type sim for Omaha

What I do, I do for the league

It’s a .5 lead but it’s a lead!

Good job fellas

Uuaww wrote:

wdoupis wrote:When Omaha comes up short of the playoffs he should blame Ted for this atrocious sim for George. Washington gets swept at home by Philly and then goes to Omaha and sweeps them. That likely makes this too much to overcome without a 7-0 type sim for Omaha

What I do, I do for the league