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So, as I said, I decided to not intervene and assign players to the Tropics, even though they didn't get to participate in the expansion draft like the Drillers did. Instead I went and gave the Drillers $80 million in cash and the Tropics $110 million. I also increased both teams budgets. Just a few days in to FA (again, this is right after the 2018 season, so you have the likes of Harper, Kershaw, Grandal, Donaldson, etc. as FA. Basically the best FA class in years) both teams started signing relatively low rated players to minor league deals to fill up their teams. This was a good sign. Then the bombshell...
The Columbus Tropics, the team that for whatever reason didn't get to pick any players in the expansion draft, signed Bryce Harper to a 6 year deal. Harper is going to a brand new, fresh expansion team to play out his prime years (although he can opt out after year one). I thought this was really cool. The Tropics are still going to be historically awful. Their best player other then Harper is rated 40 overall and the next best is 25 overall. The Drillers at least got to grab a handful of higher rated players in the expansion draft.
Anyways, just an update for anyone wondering how things are turning out. I'm hoping the Drillers and Tropics sign some more legit players each with the money I gave them.
Also, as an aside, anyone who has expansion teams show up in an MLB QS game, you have to manually go in and retire #42 for those teams. A small detail but one I would have missed had I not caught it.
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