Posted by nauds3000 on 11/28/2011 3:28:00 AM (view original):
Great videos, your choice swear words were pretty funny. I thought I was doing everything right until I saw your videos. There are a few points I had questions on
1) as a general rule you offer every player a Mutual Option if they are 30 yrs+ and could decline by the end of their contract?
2) Didnt fully show your reasoning behind not signing the best ML coaches and instead signing them for >1 million. It seems brilliant, but in my case I have stud prospects playing in the majors that are still developing, so in my situation wouldnt get the best ML coaches available benefit them more?
1) Probably 90%+ of the time. The only occasion where you definitely don't is where you have a stud player who is willing to re-sign for a fraction of his open market value and you'll definitely be disappointed if he declines his option. i.e. if you have a SP who's 32 and gives 200 IP with a ~ 3 ERA and you can re-sign him for $8M/year, you definitely don't want to give him a mutual option in his last year at age 36 since he'll still be easily worth the money for the final year of his deal (assuming that you are investing $20M/year in training). on the open market pretty much always, unless there's somebody who by fluke is available for wayyy less than they should be, but that's rare.
2) i was going to get into it in my next video, but long story short my HC and BC are both 91 overall and my PC is 83, and I averaged like $750K apiece. Coaches will accept half of what they are demanding on the screen, so there are always a bunch of good ones that slide through the cracks. Coach hiring in general is a joke because there's so little value in the HC/BC/PC to begin with and there's such an abundance of good coaches that it's really pointless to cut into your budget at all for them. Hiring a FI is really all that matters since they are so scarce, so that's basically the only coach that you need to save up any amount of cash for.