Not that I want Larry Wayne to retire but he is pretty much useless at this point.
I took over the Braves to start the game and Chipper was decent.
2011 batting .247 with 107 hits and 20 homeruns.
2012 still chipper .254 102 hits and 16 hr..
2013 he is injured most of the season and plays in 65 games but bats .262 and getting almost as many walks as hits.
I figure okay the guy is old and had an injury time for him to retire, nope he comes back for his final contract year.
2014 he is on the bench and maintains good morale the whole season which shocks me. Only gets 30 at bats and 7 hits with a .233 avg.
He shocks me by asking for an extension!! I feel a little bit of nostalgia for a future hall of famer and give him a 2 year deal for 1mil a season.
2015 he starts in the minors, still maintaining good morale!! I have a string of injuries and instead of calling up a rookie who is 20/80 I call up good ol Larry Wayne at 20/80. He plays in 8 games getting 14 at bats and 2 hits batting a grand .143....
Time to retire right and forego that final season? Nope once again he comes back for his final contract year.
2016 he starts in the minors, still with good morale. Injuries once again force me to call him up. His first day back on the active roster, I get an email. He is going to retire is what I am thinking. No! He wants another two year extension! The guy is 44 years old, can barely get a hit and still wants to play, so I sign him for way more than he is worth just as an experiment at this point. He agrees to 2 years at 800k a year. The season just ended and here are the stats
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G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB K AVG
31 26 0 4 0 0 0 0 1 10 .154
I feel bad for the guy hasn't hit a HR in 4 years but he wants to play. His career .avg is still .300 thank goodness, 2728 hits and 472 HR.
I will just have to say, that I can't get players to do this in OOTP11 no matter how much I want them to. I have guys retiring with 2940 hits and crap at the age of 38 in that game. Whatever is going on iOOTP to cause this I love it!