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Long-term goals do start to get lost in bad situations. My Orioles won the division in 2019, but last year (2018), was a 100 loss season (and that was in OOTP 18); Some things I did last year going into 2019 in retrospect were short-term, aside from extending Manny (Yea, that was expensive! and I kept him at 3B) and that IFA seemed a good long-term move, despite the regression this year.
On the pitching side, I signed SP J.Happ, traded for SP Martin Perez, and brought in that outstanding IFA from Japan for about $14 million a year. I let Britton walk. An I Let Jones and traded Trumbo, but had to retain about 50% of his salary (still helped), and I extended Scope early. Also, I have had great success in turning a couple mid-20's AAA/Utility great glove kind of guys into everyday players, to make up for the loss of power.
In 2020, it all fell apart. With the SPs, I sort of panicked, and signed Max Scherzer, with the Nats only picking up about $5.0 million per year of his contract. Since I’m in 2020, he upside is that I only have a year to deal with it, and he will be 36, so I think he will want to test FA and decline the qualifying offer, which should bag me another draft compensation pick.
Anyway, I’m going to try and rebuild that depth going into 2021.
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