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Old 04-04-2016, 05:42 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by azepeda View Post
some players are asking for say 470,000 in signing bonus, they are usually players who have not been in the majors yet and have some decent potential. I agree that no team would pay 2 million for such a player but every now and then an above average player is available and you have another team bidding against you driving the price up. As I said, the money you pay them is not taken out of your budget.
So there are two bugs. One that allows a bonus bidding war for players not worth a minimum MLB contract. Doesn't happen IRL. The other bug is that the bonus doesn't come out of your $$ available.

Fix the first first IMO.
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