Richest Contract in BLB History

[Pat]

It's alright though... the Nate "The Skull" Magness era in Virginia starts this year (I think).

Bring him by Washington. I'll skull**** the shit out of him.

[Clay]

Oh... he'll be in Washington.... show your little roided out bastards some respect.

[Spectre]

Bring him by Washington. I'll skull**** the shit out of him.

LOL

[Carlos]

It's funny how the BLB was actually ahead of the curve. You're seeing more and more teams extend young guys before their arbitration years expire or even hit. Detroit did it with Cabrera and Granderson this year... and Tampa just did it big time with Longoria.

Maybe GiGGAs was ahead of the curve when he gave Danny Nelson a big deal before his first auto-renewel.

I came in too late to do this with Zamarida and Tesina.

But, I did it with Hamlet. He's a huge bargain for his production. 8 years, $50 million for a .300, 20 HR, 90 RBI guy. I think that's a great deal.

I did it with Soto and Dean and it made it much easier to deal them in the deadline.

I already signed Gagne through his arbitration years. Alfonso Diaz is making nearly nothing through his arbitration years. And I also gave Varada a long-term deal for his defense but he's only averaging about $750,000 a year.

Joe Seagarra, Don Chandler, and Denny Erwood are next in line.

Smaller market teams have to do this. Gotta keep your core players. Sometimes you get burned but I think most of the time you'll offer the dollars to a guy that is going to put up quality numbers.

[liquidcrash]

It seemed like a lot of players were taking huge discounts early in our league. I'm not sure if something changed in the game, but it doesn't seem like too many young guys are willing to take the deals we were giving away earlier.

I know I locked up Ponte, Parongao and Esser for long term deals on the cheap. Neither Esser nor Parongao makes more than 3 million, and Ponte is only at 4. Ponte may have fallen off, but he's still a good deal at that price.

[Carlos]

It's much more realistic now than before.

I remember in older versions you could give potential star players long-term deals that would probably total at $5 million.

Now, these guys are smarter. You have to come close to what MLB teams are basically giving.

The only thing I do NOT like that makes it nearly impossible to lock up guys long term is the contract rules which obviously don't really apply in the real world.

Something like the Evan Longoria deal signed by Tampa would never get done in OOTP because the owner would never approve. He would tell you to even out the dollars.

I hope that's fixed especially if your future finances show that you'll be well below your budget. Maybe the improved financials in OOTP9 will allow for this to happen.

[Carlos]

Anyone break the Zam deal this offseason?

[Guest]

It's realistic, just not for the time period.