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Originally Posted by swampdragon
When your team has more injuries than the real 2014 Rangers, then you can complain.
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Well, I've lost Beltre and Cruz as well.
) Doesn't that count?
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But, lemme tell you what happened. I went to the free agent pool and looked for something decent I could replace Beltre and Cruz with. Have you ever gotten a slug in the free agent pool that turned into a 4 star player? lol I did in Cruz's spot. But, unfortunately the slug I got for Beltre is still a slug.
Then I was watching the trading board and right after my closer got injured I saw SD make a trade with Toronto for this awesome CL (man he had stats like I never saw before with green and blue clear accross the board on nearly every stat. So I says what the hey I got 3 players who are in the minors who are going to file for free agency and they are scruff slug players just about average or less (in the red on quality) and I offered them up for this CL and Toronto accepted. I was shocked as I didn't even have to use all the scrubs. Just a couple of them and one was so crappy I wouldn't have used him on my rookies team. lol
So after all is said and done I got at least two replacements out of 3 that turned out to be pretty good for a cost of nothing (free agent guy that turned into 4 stars accepted a minor league deal to begin with can you believe) lol and I'm 9 games in front in the West now. It's funny before I lost Beltre, Cruz and my CL I was like 4th or 5th place 4 games behind.
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Once again injuries is not an issue. It's that waste of $11,000,00 for no play that bugged me. In all fairness a contract should work both ways. You play I pay you a contract salary. You don't play I pay you a minimum wage. That's the way it works in the real world and I've been in a union myself.
) (in case you're wondering Workmans comp does not pay your regular salary. They pay you at a discount of the base pay of about 60% when you get injured on the job).