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Alaric410 · 09-09-2015, 08:49 AM

It's currently spring training of my first season and I'm trying to make a trade and being told I don't have enough cash.

In the trade window:

Budget space available is $5.0M
Cash Available is $3.2M
Total Available is $8.2M

The trade I want to propose involves me trading a player who has one year at $9.8M remaining on his contract for a young player who will be on the minimum. The guy I'm trying to trade is a two-star guy coming off a great season, but a little overpaid at $9.8M.

My thinking was to trade him along with cash amounting to most of his salary, in the hope of getting a decent young player back. However the game insists that the most cash I can include in the trade is $3.2M. Any more and it says I don't have enough cash.

This doesn't seem right to me as if I was to include $9M in the trade, I'm simultaneously reducing my payroll by $9.3M ($9.8M minus $0.5M to pay the new guy) and so am improving my full-year cash position.

And it's not a timing issue. From my Accounting page, the $3.2M that shows up in the trade screen as my Cash Available is just my starting balance for the year. YTD I've actually received my media revnue and not paid any salaries yet, so it's not as if the check would bounce if I need to pay the $9M now and only recoup the $9.3M in salary savings over the course of the year.

Is this just the way it works? That to trade a guy with cash, you actually need to have that cash in your opening balance? Even if it improves your full-year position?

09-09-2015, 08:49 AM	#1
Alaric410 Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Mar 2012 Posts: 25	Not enough to cash to make trade when I'm including less than the player's salary It's currently spring training of my first season and I'm trying to make a trade and being told I don't have enough cash. In the trade window: Budget space available is $5.0M Cash Available is $3.2M Total Available is $8.2M The trade I want to propose involves me trading a player who has one year at $9.8M remaining on his contract for a young player who will be on the minimum. The guy I'm trying to trade is a two-star guy coming off a great season, but a little overpaid at $9.8M. My thinking was to trade him along with cash amounting to most of his salary, in the hope of getting a decent young player back. However the game insists that the most cash I can include in the trade is $3.2M. Any more and it says I don't have enough cash. This doesn't seem right to me as if I was to include $9M in the trade, I'm simultaneously reducing my payroll by $9.3M ($9.8M minus $0.5M to pay the new guy) and so am improving my full-year cash position. And it's not a timing issue. From my Accounting page, the $3.2M that shows up in the trade screen as my Cash Available is just my starting balance for the year. YTD I've actually received my media revnue and not paid any salaries yet, so it's not as if the check would bounce if I need to pay the $9M now and only recoup the $9.3M in salary savings over the course of the year. Is this just the way it works? That to trade a guy with cash, you actually need to have that cash in your opening balance? Even if it improves your full-year position?