1983 Free Agency Discussion

[Sully]

So... it looks like Baltimore, Dallas and Pawtucket are slinging the checkbook around....

Should be interesting...

Uh...someone is. Dupuis demands just went through the roof.

[mahoney2]

I can take a guess on who that is, and its not me.

[rubisco43]

not moi. but seeing some of these demands, we might have to adjust something in the game...

[Guest]

not moi. but seeing some of these demands, we might have to adjust something in the game...

Yeah. If there's one thing that isn't staying true to the era that the league's in, it's salaries.

[mahoney2]

I think it will work itself out after some of the money is off the table after a few signings.

[Riverman]

Yeah. If there's one thing that isn't staying true to the era that the league's in, it's salaries.

That is because the money teams have is not true to the era. Our budgets are more in line with budgets today rather than then.

[Jim]

That is because the money teams have is not true to the era. Our budgets are more in line with budgets today rather than then.

Agreed. How many players right now are even making $20 million a year? Just about all the best free agents in the BLB are looking for $20+ million. Should be an interesting first-year player draft with sandwich picks depending on what some of these FAs go for.

[Jistic]

Agreed. How many players right now are even making $20 million a year? Just about all the best free agents in the BLB are looking for $20+ million. Should be an interesting first-year player draft with sandwich picks depending on what some of these FAs go for.

3 are right now. But holy shit, did anyone else see that Clint Lance is making 17mil per? WOW!

[Riverman]

Agreed. How many players right now are even making $20 million a year? Just about all the best free agents in the BLB are looking for $20+ million. Should be an interesting first-year player draft with sandwich picks depending on what some of these FAs go for.

The only one I know of is A-Rod though there may be others.

I think the reason so many of our FAs will be able to get $20 million plus is that so many others are willing to sign very long-term contracts for chump change before they reach free agency. This leaves teams with a lot of extra money to spend on the few players that actually reach free agency.

[Sully]

The only one I know of is A-Rod though there may be others.

I think the reason so many of our FAs will be able to get $20 million plus is that so many others are willing to sign very long-term contracts for chump change before they reach free agency. This leaves teams with a lot of extra money to spend on the few players that actually reach free agency.

Very good point. A lot of us are guilty of it, but if you look at what guys like Keppel, Gremades, and Campoveroe are making now...and they're 3 of the best players in the league.

[rubisco43]

Very good point. A lot of us are guilty of it, but if you look at what guys like Keppel, Gremades, and Campoveroe are making now...and they're 3 of the best players in the league.

Keppel makes 9.5 mil / year + bonuses, which is 10% of my entire budget (which is right around what ARod makes from the Yanks - ~10-15% of the Yanks budget). I find it hard to fathom that I will have to shell out 33% of my salary for one player. That's ridiculous and I'm not ever going that high. I'm already wincing that my first offers for a few players, which met or *slightly* exceeded their ridiculous demands, were rejected. I'll play the FA game, but I've made my final offers to several players and will look elsewhere if they decide not to sign with me.

I really think it has to do with the first two years worth of FA's that were signed WAY above what they were asking/worth, and now we're seeing the ramifications of the ridiculous contracts offered then.

[Jistic]

Why can't I even see free agents in game? It shows me 58 players. They're all scrubs. In order to find Samarano I had to player search. Anyone else have this problem?

[Clay]

Do you have some sort of filters that need to be cleared?

[Jistic]

Do you have some sort of filters that need to be cleared?

Yeah, the I am an idiot filter was on. I did this same thing a year or two ago.

Old Jistic needs a kick in the ass every once in awhile...becoming forgetful in my old age.

[Clay]

BTW - I think the whole thing about FA's is something we need to just look at as the BLB. The BLB is not the MLB, so trying to draw parrallels to it is fruitless. There were only 20 teams in the league when the big contracts started coming. Soon there will be 24 and even more money out in the universe.

That being said, like any sport, we'll have to see how it goes from here on. I think we're going to start seeing more players get locked up for 7-8 year contracts in their mid-20's. I think we're going to see players miss seasons. I think we're going to see a lot of stuff like that. What I wouldn't want to see is us tweak the universe to fix the "problem". I think we let it work itself out.