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Originally Posted by TheBrewCrew
Just because you don’t like Bauer (I despise him), doesn’t mean it’s a realistic trade. He was signed to big money this offseason. The team he signed with clearly thinks he’s worth it.
This wasn’t a scenario where it’s 3 years down the road and Bauer sucks. The FO is super excited to have him and clearly like his contract.
Absolutely 0 chance that trade would ever, ever happen. Again, maybe if it was 2023 on, not in 2021.
The mental gymnastics needed to defend the trade AI is fun to watch.
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I think it's easy to understand the AI. The AI aren't the people who run the Dodgers in real life. The AI wouldn't have offered the contract Bauer got.
It's also understandable though that most would like the AI to behave like a team that just signed Bauer to that deal, however; and I think I know how I'd fix it, which is simply to increase the value the AI gives a player in his first season after he was signed as a free agent.
Simply, if it's Year 1 of a multi-year contract and the player's previous year was with another team, the AI should be instructed to value the player very highly whether its analysis actually justifies it or not. The team just signed the player as a free agent, so is very happy to have him, whether that's justified by his age/ability/contract or not.