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Ratings are 1-10, scouting is 100% accurate, 32 teams (8 divisions, 4 teams per), 6 playoff teams (2 byes). The first 10 or so rounds of the draft are done in statsplus, the rest by list.
The only free team right now is Oakland I believe. They've made the playoffs nine of the last eleven years. Six years ago they won 103 games, starting a five-year 100+ win streak, including two pennants and a 117-win season where their bats scored 1093 runs. But last year they suffered a surprising disappointment, falling all the way from 102 wins to 87 wins and missing the playoffs.
They have a strong core of superstars in their early 30s signed to team-friendly deals and a massive budget of $258 million (3rd in the league). But their farm system is depleted and lacking in long-term assets. The team is at a fork in the road; this team either needs a skilled GM to assemble a solid supporting cast around perhaps the best four-person core in the league, or a different kind of skilled GM to blow it up, getting maximum assets out of the in-house studs while they're still in their prime.
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