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Post by glenn on Oct 2, 2013 20:07:04 GMT -5
One of the reasons I'm using finances is to prove once and for all that money cannot guarantee a winning team. In 2001, the Yankees are obscenely rich, with available finances of $426 million. At the opposite end of the spectrum are the Expos and the Devil Rays, with a mere $85.2 million. The Pirates aren't much better off, with $95.8 million.
The one team that concerns me is the Expos, who have just $1.2 million left in the bank. Does this mean they will be forced to trade off many of their players at the end of the season? Will they be able to field a team in 2002? We all know what happened in real life, but what will happen in PureSim? Will the game crash, or will I have to manually alter the finances so the Expos can keep a team in existence? Does anyone know?
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Post by Oldtimer on Oct 2, 2013 20:55:38 GMT -5
Usually, with the reserves low, they will not resigned most of the players for an extension ... when the Rookies Draft start, will draft low picks till they are able to fill the roster ...
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Post by catknight on Oct 3, 2013 0:02:11 GMT -5
Yeah, I was looking at the PureSim numbers for 199...2 I believe it was, and there are rich/poor teams there as well including a handful with less than $5m reserve.
I'm interpreting that as a payroll limit. For example, Montreal CANNOT increase their payroll by more than $1.2 million, which means any FA signing during the 2001 season is probably out, and they need to be very careful about the contracts of any trades. When players retire or are not resigned at the end of 2001, their contracts come off payroll and Montreal will have more room to maneuver. The AI would probably be well advised to follow your tactics: Get the huge contracts off of payroll to buy some room to maneuver, then start looking for cheap players. There should be enough of those during the 2001-2002 offseason for Montreal to keep fielding a team.
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Post by themonk on Oct 3, 2013 0:43:22 GMT -5
For many years now it's been argued that professional baseball is becoming more of a financial competition than an athletic one. If this true, the future of professional baseball is not so good.
But stories like those of the Pirates and the A's, especially the 2002 Oakland A 's, disprove this theory. Their roster decimated by free agency, having only players that were undervalued, and having one of the lowest budgets in MLB, the Oakland A's were able to win 103 games during the regular season and make it to the playoffs in 2002!
It's really not about how fat your wallet is, but about how the money is spent, how the team is managed, how players are evaluated. Oakland's Billy Beane's Moneyball sabermetrics' approach just shows that a lot of what is considered as conventional baseball wisdom are not really sound ideas for building and managing a baseball team. There is still so much to learn...
In the future, it is not those with the fattest wallets who will matter, but those who have the better brain trust, those who are creative enough to find newer and more effective ways of doing things. And this bodes well, especially for small-market teams...
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Post by Oldtimer on Oct 3, 2013 4:46:45 GMT -5
Point taken ... In the way, the Red Sox brass had done at the end of 2012 season ... Ben Cherington totally remade the team during the offseason ...the firing of Valentine ... He hired new manager John Farrell ... brought in free agents (Solid veterans like Mike Napoli, Jonny Gomes, Ryan Dempster, Stephen Drew, Shane Victorino and Koji Uehara) that emphasized clubhouse chemistry (no more beers in the clubhouse during the games) ... signing them to modest contracts (unlike of their past dealings) ... Almost overnight, the Red Sox completely changed their identity - shaggy beards and enthusiastic high-fives ... The team has one of the deepest farm systems in baseball : Jackie Bradley Jr. & Xander Bogaerts came up to play ... The Red Sox could possibly attain a perfect ending to the 2013 season, for taking home their third World Series Championships in the past decade ... of course, it's the Playoffs where anything can and will happen within several weeks ... it remains to be seen, if the Red Sox can pull off that monumental task ... but mates, what a wonderful Baseball Season it has been !!! ... and Thats Baseball ...
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Post by markvacc1 on Oct 3, 2013 9:10:08 GMT -5
This could very well be the year of the small market teams. Red Sox beware, the Rays play them and the Yankees pretty scrappy regard;ess of how their season is going. Indians picked a bad time to peak. Pirates are starting a roll and the A's are quietly awaiting the Tigers.
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